| 单词 | to be lifted off the hook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be lifted off the hook g. to go off the hooks: to get married. So to be lifted off the hook. local. ΚΠ 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter x Some of the young chaps will be wanting her to get married. These here pretty ones go off the hooks so soon. 1889 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings 3rd Ser. 9 She had never been, up till date, lifted off the hook... The offers she had refused in her day were many. < as lemmas |
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