get one’s hooks into someone



get one’s hooks into someone

tv. [for a woman] to succeed in “capturing” a specific man. When she got her hooks into him, she decided he wasn’t so great after all.
See also: get, hook

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ruqayya-Arabic
Yentl-Yiddish
Augustus[ɔ:'gʌstəs]
Gofraidh-Irish
Alba (3)-Ancient Germanic
Gunni-Ancient Scandinavian