A stratagem in which an attractive person entices another person into revealing information or doing something unwise.
美人计；美男计
Example sentencesExamples
To set the honeytrap, before the wedding night, each suspicious fiancé tells the agency about his loved one's taste in men, music and food, enabling the detectives to cast a potential seducer with matching looks and interests.
He has left his wife and family after allegedly asking an underage girl to pose naked in a tabloid newspaper honeytrap.
Definition of honeytrap in US English:
honeytrap
(also honey trap)
nounˈhənēˌtrap
A stratagem in which irresistible bait is used to lure a victim.
Example sentencesExamples
He has left his wife and family after allegedly asking an underage girl to pose naked in a tabloid newspaper honeytrap.
To set the honeytrap, before the wedding night, each suspicious fiancé tells the agency about his loved one's taste in men, music and food, enabling the detectives to cast a potential seducer with matching looks and interests.