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
Lilly	LIL-ee (English)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Hamza	-	Arabic
Dene	DEEN	English (Rare)
Jerrold	JER-əld	English
Thurston	['θə:stən]
Gijsbert	KHIES-bərt	Dutch