Verb
take a bite (third-person singular simple present takes a bite, present participle taking a bite, simple past took a bite, past participle taken a bite)
(idiomatic) To eat a quick, light snack.
Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it. Morgan Spurlock
Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But... she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to. Libba Bray
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. Zig Ziglar
When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home. Robert De Niro
From his hole so wet and drenching a pike rose up to tree to sing when through the greyish net of clouds first gleam of day was seen and at the lake the lapping waves woke up with joyous mean the pike rose to the spruce's crone to take a bite at reddish cone. Aaro Hellaakoski
Life is a dung pie from which you take a bite every day. French Proverb