HOOK, HOOKS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Hook, Hooks He is off the hooks. Done for, laid on the shelf, superseded, dead. The bent pieces of iron on which the hinges of a gate rest and turn are called hooks; if a gate is off the hooks it is in a bad way, and cannot readily be opened and shut. On one's own hook. On one's own responsibility or account. An angler's phrase. To fish with a golden hook. To give bribes. "P�cher avec un hamegon d'or. " Risk a sprat to catch a mackerel. To buy fish, and pretend to have caught it. With a hook at the end. My assent is given with a hook at the end means not intended to be kept. In some parts of Germany, even to the present day, when a witness swears falsely, he crooks one finger into a sort of hook, and this is supposed sufficient to avert the sin of perjury. It is a crooked oath, or an oath "with a hook at the end." (See Over The Left.) N.B. Ringing the bells backwards, and repeating the Lord's Prayer backwards belong to the same class of superstitions. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: HOOK, HOOKS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters ",-h-h-k-k-o-o-o-o-s"
	-5 letters: hooks, kooks, shook.
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