单词 | hook, line, and sinker |
释义 | > as lemmashook, line, and sinker P4. hook, line, and sinker: completely, without reservations. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > in full or to fullest extent > fully or without exceptions or qualifications quite and cleana1175 for odd or evenc1425 the fullness of timec1425 in toto1798 sans phrase1808 hook, line, and sinker1838 1838 G. W. Patterson in T. W. Barnes Mem. T. Weed (1884) v. 60 We are gone, hook, line, and sinker. 1865 Weekly New Mexican 25 Aug. 1/3 Without him Chavez [sc. a candidate for Congress] is gone hook, line, and sinker. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 59 The old man swallowed those references of yours, hook, line and sinker. 1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 58 I fell for it hook, line and sinker. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 38 You, my dear Charles,..have gone straight, hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. < as lemmas |
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