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buttonhook[ʹbʌtnhʋk]
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<Í> крючок (для застёгивания пуговиц на ботинках, перчатках)

off the hooks Идиома

on tenterhooks

carefully, cautiously, afraid to move He's cautious since his accident. He drives around on tenterhooks.

tenterhooks

in a state of suspense or strain because of uncertainty They have been on tenterhooks all week while waiting for the decision about the Olympics.

keep sb on tenterhooks

Idiom(s): keep sb on tenterhooks

Theme: 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 sth

Theme: 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.

go off the hooks

obsolete To perish or die. If the Duke should go 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 gone off the hooks?Learn more: go, hook, off

off the hooks

dead. British informalLearn more: hook, off

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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 off someone's hands off subject off the (starting) blocks off the air off the back of a lorry off the back of a truck off the bat off the beam off the beaten path off the beaten track off the blocks off the boat off the boil off the books off the chain off the charts off the clock off the cuff off the deep end off the deep end, to go off the face of the earth off the grid off the ground off the hook off the hook, to get/to be let off the hooks off the map off the mark off the pace off the peg off the rack off the radar off the rails off the record off the reel off the reservation off the road off the shelf off the subject off the table off the top of (one's) head off the top of head off the top of one's head off the top of your head off the track off the wagon off the wall off the wind off to a bad start off to a flying start off to a good start