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
Nadir	-	Arabic
Pilirani	pil-ee-RAH-nee	Southern African, Chewa
Annets	['ænits]
Maarika	MAH:-ree-kah (Finnish)	Finnish, Estonian
Golnar	-	Persian
Willis	['wilis]