| 单词 | to get one's hooks on |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's hooks on (also into) c. In plural. slang. The fingers or hands. So to get one's hooks on (also into): to get hold of. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] fingerOE talons1594 nimblesa1637 the ten stealers1655 Welsh comb1788 forks1819 hooks1829 fingerlet1836 bread hook1845 dactyl1889 grab-hook1946 the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort begeteOE findOE bewinc1175 getc1175 conquerc1230 reachc1275 procurec1325 makec1350 fishc1374 catchc1384 furneya1400 attainc1405 tillc1440 to pick out1577 to get a gripe ofa1586 secure1743 raise1838 to get one's hooks on (also into)1926 1829 W. Maginn tr. E. F. Vidocq et al. Mem. IV. 261 To his clies my hooks I throw in. 1877 W. H. Thomson Five Years' Penal Servitude iv. 259 In a week or two a man can bring his hooks and feelers into full working trim again. 1917 E. Wallace Just Men of Cordova x. 169 Put your lamps over my shiners, run your hooks over me Astrakhan collar. 1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 122 Get one's hooks on, get hold of. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. xxvii. 230 About these volumes... I noticed a queer hesitancy on your part when I first got my hooks into them. 1954 J. Potts Go, Lovely Rose viii. 41 Maybe he's eloped with that fat Lang dame. She's been trying to get her hooks into him all winter. < as lemmas |
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