Be not much cop British informal slang
If you say that something or someone is not much cop, you mean that they are not of high quality, not useful or not very good.
I am not much cop at swimming.
This sequel of the book is not much cop.
Being not much cop as a flight attendant, so she ditched this job.
To be much less good than someone or something
The verb " be" must be conjugated according to its tense.
Cop was a slang term for "value" or "use" in the early twentieth century.
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.