You catch more bees with honey

Are you a people pleaser or darling do you really just not give a damn?

I recently heard this expression on one of my favourite podcasts, Telling Everybody Everything, hosted by the excellent Katherine Ryan. At first hearing it didn’t make sense to me. Don’t bees make honey? How can you then catch it with its own produce? A quick Google search reveals what seems to be the original phrase which makes more sense: ‘You can cat…