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hook and eye, hook-and-eye, n.
[hook n.1 5.]
A metallic fastening, esp. for a dress, consisting of a hook, usually of flattened wire, and an eye or wire loop on which the hook catches, one of the two being fixed to each of the parts to be held together.
c1626[see hook v. 4]. a1697Aubrey Lives (1898) I. 205 Then their breeches were fastened to the doubletts with points—then came in hookes and eies. 1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 330 The ends are united by a small steel hook and eye. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvii, Now and then tying a string, or fastening a hook-and-eye. 1862Reade Hard Cash 9 My ladies did not..care a hook and eye about it.
fig.1809–10Coleridge Friend (1837) I. 20 All the hooks-and-eyes of the memory. 1860Emerson Cond. Life, Worship Wks. (Bohn) II. 394 The whole creation is made of hooks and eyes.
attrib.1850Beck's Florist Apr. 95 The lid attached by hook-and-eye hinges.
Hence hook-and-eye v. trans., to fasten with or as with a hook and eye; fig. to connect, link.
1827Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 82 That any combination of chances should hook-and-eye me with any near connection of absolute wisdom! a1843― Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 230 A multitude of stories hooked and eyed together clumsily. 1855J. Leech Pict. Life & Char. 11 (Heading) Hooking and Eyeing. |