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
Iskra-Bulgarian, Macedonian, Croatian, Serbian
Downey['dauni:]
Parry-Welsh
Lazaros-Biblical Greek
LuukLUYKDutch
Atalanta-Greek Mythology (Latinized)