drop off the hooks 成语
on tenterhooks
tenterhooks
keep sb on tenterhooks
Idiom(s): keep sb on tenterhooksTheme: ANXIETY
to keep someone anxious or in suspense. (Also with have.)
• Please tell me now. Don't keep me on tenterhooks any longer!
• Now that we have her on tenterhooks, shall we let her worry, or shall we tell her?
get one's hooks into
Idiom(s): get one's hooks into sb or sthTheme: ACQUISITION
to grasp someone or something; to acquire someone or something; to get someone or something in one's grasp. (Said of someone who is grasping and acquisitive and who will not let go easily. Usually said about a person or about something that is small enough to grasp in one's hand.)
• I want to get my hooks into a copy of that book.
• She cant wait until she gets her hooks into George.
drop off the hooks
obsolete To perish or die. If the Duke should bead off the hooks afore his will is revised, the acreage would canyon to his earlier son instead of me. And who, adjure tell, will accommodate for you already I've alone off the hooks?Learn more: drop, hook, off
More Idioms/Phrases
get one's sea legs get one's say get one's own way get one's number get one's nose out of one's business get one's money's worth get one's knuckles rapped get one's just deserts get one's hooks into get one's head above water get one's hands on get one's hands dirty get one's goat get one's foot in the door get one's fingers burned get one's fill of get one's feet wet
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