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.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Salah	-	Arabic
Kathrine	-	Danish, Norwegian
Pelle	PEL-le	Swedish
Deana	dee-AN-ə, DEEN-ə	English
Zlata	-	Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Czech, Slovak, Russian
ÉRiu	-	Irish Mythology