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
Nunzio	NOON-tsyo	Italian
Leo	LE-o (German, Finnish), LAY-o (Dutch), LEE-o (English)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, Croatian, Late Roman
Vance	[væns]
Kalea	-	Hawaiian
Howie	HOW-ee	English
Gwladys	-	Welsh