The time is ripe sentence
Now is the most suitable or best time to do something
Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest in the past many years. The time is ripe to buy a house.
The prey is in position. The time is ripe to shoot it.
Don't hurry. Just wait until the time is ripe.
The time is ripe for change and reform.
a long time ago
To remain influential in a particular situation or a particular group of people for a long time
Time is running out.
This expression means something will occur in the near future.
Blind man's holiday is the time between daylight and darkness when people cannot work because it is too dark to see.
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.