"I'll bite" meaning in English

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          "text": "—Why did the chicken cross the road? —OK, I'll bite. Why did it cross the road?",
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          "ref": "2015 October 2, Devon Maloney, “Heroes Reborn Recap: One of Us, One of Them”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 2022-08-14",
          "text": "Who is trying to nab Tommy? What is his mom's power?! ¶ All right, fine. I'll bite.",
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          "text": "This isn't usually my type of movie, but I'll bite.",
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          "ref": "2013 August 13, Chris Kohler, “I Don't Need Your Torture, DuckTales Remastered”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-07",
          "text": "Designers made their games really hard because their games were really short, and they had to encourage you to play them over and over. […] But okay. I'll bite. Let's try a game with NES-era difficulty. So I go back into the Amazon. This time I'm a lot better.",
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          "ref": "2016 July 5, “Sober Stick Figure: A Unique and Hilarious Story of Alcoholism and Recovery”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-08-10",
          "text": "As a recovery advocate and blogger, I get a lot of requests from authors who want me to read and write about their books. Most of the time, I decline. But every once in a while, if the book seems interesting enough, I'll bite. This is one of those times I'm glad I did.",
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          "ref": "2019 January 25, Dan Ozzi, “The Whole Weezer/\"Africa\" Thing Was My Fault and I'm So Sorry”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-09",
          "text": "\"Please RT if you want to help make Ohio teen @weezerafrica's simple, wholesome dream come true of seeing rock band @Weezer cover Africa by Toto,\" he tweeted. Luke is an occasional Noisey writer, and is very adept at wandering into the dark rooms of the internet and causing trouble in them. So my interest was piqued. \"OK, I'll bite,\" I thought, and gave Luke's tweet the one true currency left in our capitalist hell world: my Click.",
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        "Indicating that one is willing to engage with a potentially difficult or inconvenient situation."
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        "(colloquial) Indicating that one is willing to engage with a potentially difficult or inconvenient situation."
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          "ref": "2023 February 1, Carol Midgley, quoting Iain Duncan Smith, “House pomposity is one of the few remaining joys in British life”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-01",
          "text": "I suspect fruity language is lavishly used on building sites and in 10 Downing Street, but not so much in middle-ranking jobs. Iain Duncan Smith once told a Treasury mandarin on the phone \"If you ever speak to my officials like that again I'll bite your balls off and send them to you in a box.\"",
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          "text": "Designers made their games really hard because their games were really short, and they had to encourage you to play them over and over. […] But okay. I'll bite. Let's try a game with NES-era difficulty. So I go back into the Amazon. This time I'm a lot better.",
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          "text": "As a recovery advocate and blogger, I get a lot of requests from authors who want me to read and write about their books. Most of the time, I decline. But every once in a while, if the book seems interesting enough, I'll bite. This is one of those times I'm glad I did.",
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          "ref": "2019 January 25, Dan Ozzi, “The Whole Weezer/\"Africa\" Thing Was My Fault and I'm So Sorry”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-09",
          "text": "\"Please RT if you want to help make Ohio teen @weezerafrica's simple, wholesome dream come true of seeing rock band @Weezer cover Africa by Toto,\" he tweeted. Luke is an occasional Noisey writer, and is very adept at wandering into the dark rooms of the internet and causing trouble in them. So my interest was piqued. \"OK, I'll bite,\" I thought, and gave Luke's tweet the one true currency left in our capitalist hell world: my Click.",
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          "text": "I suspect fruity language is lavishly used on building sites and in 10 Downing Street, but not so much in middle-ranking jobs. Iain Duncan Smith once told a Treasury mandarin on the phone \"If you ever speak to my officials like that again I'll bite your balls off and send them to you in a box.\"",
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