What price [fame etc.]? spoken language
Used to express one's suspicion that something that has been achieved was not worth all the effort or sacrifice made
What price fame when many close friends have broken the friendship with you?
What price modernization when air pollution is destroying our health?
Used to encourage one to accept the difficult or bad experiences that life throws upon him or her
Used to say that life includes not only happiness but also toughness too.
A comfortable and easy life
(Of an agreement or formal document) having no legal validity, or because one of the parties involved has no intention of performing what they promised.
"What price" is followed by a noun.
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.