| 单词 | off the hooks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoff the hooks Phrases P1. by hook or (also and) by crook, †with hook or crook.: by all or any means, fair or foul; by one device or another. Usually implying difficulty in attaining the thing sought, which may necessitate the use of special or extraordinary means.As to the origin of the phrase there is no evidence; although invention has been prolific of explanatory stories, most of them at variance with chronology. The Wycliffite quots. are of somewhat doubtful date, and may be later than that from Gower, which has hepe n. for ‘hook’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > by the instrumentality of [phrase] > by any means by hook or (also and) by crookc1380 in any casea1398 by some manner of means1580 at any rate1601 per fas et nefas1602 somehow or another1664 somehow or other1664 at all rates1667 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 250 Þei schulle bie hem wiþ pore mennus goodis wiþ hook or wiþ crok. c1383 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 331 Þei sillen sacramentis..and compellen men to bie alle þis wiþ hok or crok. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 223 What with hepe and what with croke They [false Witness and Perjury] make her maister ofte winne.] a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. D.vv Nor wyll suffre this boke By hoke ne by croke Prynted for to be. 1541 Schole House of Women sig. Dv So at length, by howche or by crowche, Lesse or more, euer they craue, Untyll the hande, be in thy pouche. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Cviiv By one meanes therfore or by other, other by howke or crooke they must nedes departe awaye. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 179 Some..care not how they come by it, per fas & nefas, hooke or crooke, so they haue it. 1651 N. Bacon Contin. Hist. Disc. Govt. 116 Title enough for a great man that resolved to hold by hooke, what he had got by crooke. a1777 S. Foote Trip to Calais (1778) ii. 35 If you could put us in a way, by hook or by crook, to get her out of the convent. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 186 If you can't gain it by hook, you must by crook. 1842 ‘G. Eliot’ in Life (1885) I. 112 Do come by hook or by crook. P2. off the hooks. Cf. off the hinges at hinge n. Phrases. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased untrumc825 sickc888 unwholec888 slackc897 unstronga900 sicklea1000 sam-halea1023 worseOE attaint1303 languishinga1325 heallessc1374 sicklyc1374 sicklewa1387 bada1393 mishalea1400 languoring?c1425 distempered1440 unwell?c1450 detent?a1475 poora1475 languorousc1475 maladif1481 illa1500 maladiousc1500 wanthriven1508 attainted1509 unsound1513 acrazed1521 cracked1527 unsoundya1529 visited1537 infirmed1552 crazed1555 healthless1568 ill-liking1572 afflicted1574 crazy1576 unhealthful1580 sickish1581 valetudinary1581 not well1587 fainty1590 ill-disposed1596 unhealthsome1598 tainted1600 ill-affected1604 peaking1611 unhealthy1611 infirmited1616 disaffected1626 physical1633 illish1637 pimping1640 invalid1642 misaffected1645 valetudinarious1648 unhale1653 badly1654 unwholesome1655 valetudinous1655 morbulent1656 off the hooksa1658 mawkish1668 morbid1668 unthriven1680 unsane1690 ailing1716 not wellish1737 underlya1742 poorly1750 indifferent1753 comical1755 maladized1790 sober1808 sickened1815 broken-down1816 peaky1821 poorlyish1827 souffrante1827 run-down1831 sicklied1835 addle1844 shaky1844 mean1845 dauncy1846 stricken1846 peakyish1853 po'ly1860 pindling1861 rough1882 rocky1883 suffering1885 wabbit1895 icky-boo1920 like death warmed up1924 icky1938 ropy1945 crappy1956 hanging1971 sick as a parrot1982 shite1987 a1658 J. Cleveland Petitionary Poem in Wks. (1687) 326 My Doublet looks Like him that wears it, quite off o' the Hooks. a1674 in C. Mackay Coll. Songs London Prentices (1841) 64 In all this long season they were off o' th' hook. 1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 240 But the application is, methinks, much off the Hooks. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > with lack of moderation [phrase] with unskillc1220 off the hooks1612 1612 North's Plutarch 1214 Agrippina began..to flye off the hookes: and coming to Nero himself, threatned to take his Empire from him. 1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. iii. vi. 167 In time of prosperitie proudly flie off the hookes. 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle i. 7 My Brothers a little off oth' Hooks; but..'Tis only the over-flows of Wit. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adjective] > in an ill humour maltalenta1578 in a jeer1579 in suds1611 sullen-sick1614 in the pouts1615 out of sorts1621 cross1639 off the hooks1662 huff1714 sulkinga1777 as cross as a bear1838 sore-headed1844 sore-head1862 baity1921 1662 S. Pepys Diary 28 Apr. (1970) III. 73 One thing that hath put Sir Wm so long off of the hookes. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 26 May (1972) VI. 109 The Duke of Albemarle..mightily off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the River. 1779 Duchess of Devonshire Sylph II. 98 The Baronet is cursedly off the hooks, from the idea of its transpiring. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. iv. 96 Everybody..is a little off the hooks..in plain words, a little crazy, or so. d. Straight off, at once, summarily. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adverb] soonc825 ratheeOE rathelyeOE rekeneOE rekenlyOE thereright971 anonOE forth ona1000 coflyc1000 ferlyc1000 radlyOE swiftlyc1000 unyoreOE yareOE at the forme (also first) wordOE nowOE shortlya1050 rightOE here-rightlOE right anonlOE anonc1175 forthrightc1175 forthwithalc1175 skeetc1175 swithc1175 with and withc1175 anon-rightc1225 anon-rights?c1225 belivec1225 lightly?c1225 quickly?c1225 tidelyc1225 fastlyc1275 hastilyc1275 i-radlichec1275 as soon asc1290 aright1297 bedenea1300 in little wevea1300 withoute(n dwella1300 alrightc1300 as fast (as)c1300 at firstc1300 in placec1300 in the placec1300 mididonec1300 outrightc1300 prestc1300 streck13.. titec1300 without delayc1300 that stounds1303 rada1325 readya1325 apacec1325 albedenec1330 as (also also) titec1330 as blivec1330 as line rightc1330 as straight as linec1330 in anec1330 in presentc1330 newlyc1330 suddenlyc1330 titelyc1330 yernec1330 as soon1340 prestly1340 streckly1340 swithly?1370 evenlya1375 redelya1375 redlya1375 rifelya1375 yeplya1375 at one blastc1380 fresha1382 ripelyc1384 presentc1385 presently1385 without arrestc1385 readilyc1390 in the twinkling of a looka1393 derflya1400 forwhya1400 skeetlya1400 straighta1400 swifta1400 maintenantc1400 out of handc1400 wightc1400 at a startc1405 immediately1420 incontinent1425 there and then1428 onenec1429 forwithc1430 downright?a1439 agatec1440 at a tricec1440 right forth1440 withouten wonec1440 whipc1460 forthwith1461 undelayed1470 incessantly1472 at a momentc1475 right nowc1475 synec1475 incontinently1484 promptly1490 in the nonce?a1500 uncontinent1506 on (upon, in) the instant1509 in short1513 at a clap1519 by and by1526 straightway1526 at a twitch1528 at the first chop1528 maintenantly1528 on a tricea1529 with a tricec1530 at once1531 belively1532 straightwaysa1533 short days1533 undelayedly1534 fro hand1535 indelayedly1535 straight forth1536 betimesc1540 livelyc1540 upononc1540 suddenly1544 at one (or a) dash?1550 at (the) first dash?1550 instantly1552 forth of hand1564 upon the nines1568 on the nail1569 at (also in, with) a thoughtc1572 indilately1572 summarily1578 at one (a) chop1581 amain1587 straightwise1588 extempore1593 presto1598 upon the place1600 directly1604 instant1604 just now1606 with a siserary1607 promiscuously1609 at (in) one (an) instant1611 on (also upon) the momenta1616 at (formerly also on or upon) sight1617 hand to fist1634 fastisha1650 nextly1657 to rights1663 straightaway1663 slap1672 at first bolt1676 point-blank1679 in point1680 offhand1686 instanter1688 sonica1688 flush1701 like a thought1720 in a crack1725 momentary1725 bumbye1727 clacka1734 plumba1734 right away1734 momentarily1739 momentaneously1753 in a snap1768 right off1771 straight an end1778 abruptedly1784 in a whistle1784 slap-bang1785 bang?1795 right off the reel1798 in a whiff1800 in a flash1801 like a shot1809 momently1812 in a brace or couple of shakes1816 in a gird1825 (all) in a rush1829 in (also at, on) short (also quick) order1830 straightly1830 toot sweetc1830 in two twos1838 rectly1843 quick-stick1844 short metre1848 right1849 at the drop of a (occasionally the) hat1854 off the hooks1860 quicksticks1860 straight off1873 bang off1886 away1887 in quick sticks (also in a quick stick)1890 ek dum1895 tout de suite1895 bung1899 one time1899 prompt1910 yesterday1911 in two ups1934 presto changeo1946 now-now1966 presto change1987 1860 A. Trollope Castle Richmond III. xv. 285 Baronets with twelve thousand a year cannot be married off the hooks. e. to drop (etc.) off the hooks: to die. slang. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] forsweltc888 sweltc888 adeadeOE deadc950 wendeOE i-wite971 starveOE witea1000 forfereOE forthfareOE forworthc1000 to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE queleOE fallOE to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE to shed (one's own) blood?a1100 diec1135 endc1175 farec1175 to give up the ghostc1175 letc1200 aswelta1250 leavea1250 to-sweltc1275 to-worthc1275 to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290 finea1300 spilla1300 part?1316 to leese one's life-daysa1325 to nim the way of deathc1325 to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330 flit1340 trance1340 determinec1374 disperisha1382 to go the way of all the eartha1382 to be gathered to one's fathers1382 miscarryc1387 shut1390 goa1393 to die upa1400 expirea1400 fleea1400 to pass awaya1400 to seek out of lifea1400–50 to sye hethena1400 tinea1400 trespass14.. espirec1430 to end one's days?a1439 decease1439 to go away?a1450 ungoc1450 unlivec1450 to change one's lifea1470 vade1495 depart1501 to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513 to decease this world1515 to go over?1520 jet1530 vade1530 to go westa1532 to pick over the perch1532 galpa1535 to die the death1535 to depart to God1548 to go home1561 mort1568 inlaikc1575 shuffle1576 finish1578 to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587 relent1587 unbreathe1589 transpass1592 to lose one's breath1596 to make a die (of it)1611 to go offa1616 fail1623 to go out1635 to peak over the percha1641 exita1652 drop1654 to knock offa1657 to kick upa1658 to pay nature her due1657 ghost1666 to march off1693 to die off1697 pike1697 to drop off1699 tip (over) the perch1699 to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703 sink1718 vent1718 to launch into eternity1719 to join the majority1721 demise1727 to pack off1735 to slip one's cable1751 turf1763 to move off1764 to pop off the hooks1764 to hop off1797 to pass on1805 to go to glory1814 sough1816 to hand in one's accounts1817 to slip one's breatha1819 croak1819 to slip one's wind1819 stiffen1820 weed1824 buy1825 to drop short1826 to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839 to get one's (also the) call1839 to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840 to unreeve one's lifeline1840 to step out1844 to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845 to hand in one's checks1845 to go off the handle1848 to go under1848 succumb1849 to turn one's toes up1851 to peg out1852 walk1858 snuff1864 to go or be up the flume1865 to pass outc1867 to cash in one's chips1870 to go (also pass over) to the majority1883 to cash in1884 to cop it1884 snuff1885 to belly up1886 perch1886 to kick the bucket1889 off1890 to knock over1892 to pass over1897 to stop one1901 to pass in1904 to hand in one's marble1911 the silver cord is loosed1911 pip1913 to cross over1915 conk1917 to check out1921 to kick off1921 to pack up1925 to step off1926 to take the ferry1928 peg1931 to meet one's Maker1933 to kiss off1935 to crease it1959 zonk1968 cark1977 to cark it1979 to take a dirt nap1981 1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xii. 95 No man was ever able to write his own life complete. He's certain to go off the hooks before he has finished it. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 29 Our friend..has popp'd off the hooks! 1862 A. Trollope Orley Farm II. iii. 19 If he fatigues himself so much as that often, he'll soon be off the hooks. 1886 E. Lynn Linton Paston Carew iii He..was not far from eighty when he slipped off the hooks without an ache or pain. 1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross II. xi. 247 Is it true that old Fox is dropping off the hooks? 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 9 Old Timothy; he might go off the hooks at any moment. I suppose he's made his Will. f. off the hook: out of a difficult situation. Cf. on the hook at sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] > free from difficulty or trouble out of the wood1792 off the hook1864 in the clear1930 1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington in Cornhill Mag. Apr. 450 ‘Poor Caudle!’ he said to himself; ‘he's hooked, and he'll never get himself off the hook again.’ 1954 J. Potts Go, Lovely Rose xii. 77 ‘It's an idea,’ said Dr. Craig... It would get Hartley off the hook, sure enough. 1962 M. Urquhart Frail on North Circular xxv. 140 Let Broadbent think he's off the hook and then give it another twist. 1966 New Yorker 25 June 49 Then he smiled, and I knew I was off the hook. 1969 ‘A. Glyn’ Dragon Variation vii. 199 You mean she lost the kid? Well! Well, that sure lets old Walter off the hook! g. to go off the hooks: to get married. So to be lifted off the hook. local. ΚΠ 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter x Some of the young chaps will be wanting her to get married. These here pretty ones go off the hooks so soon. 1889 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings 3rd Ser. 9 She had never been, up till date, lifted off the hook... The offers she had refused in her day were many. P3. a. on one's own hook: in dependence on oneself or one's own efforts; on one's own account; at one's own risk. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > condition of being alone > [adverb] > acting alone apartc1400 merelyc1487 singly1609 unto oneself1643 on one's own hook1812 single-handedly1882 on one's own1895 single-o1948 1812 Boston Gaz. 23 Nov. They forget that Rodgers himself says that he went upon his own hook. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 13 But now I start anew upon my own hook. 1845 N.Y. Herald Oct. The time is fast approaching when we shall have our American Pope..and American Catholic every thing, on our own hook. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxi. 309 Do we come out as Liberal Conservative, or as Government man, or on our own hook? 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xiv. 219 ‘I'm a thinkin, that every man'll have to hang on his own hook, in them ar quarters.’ 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 33 I thought to-day I would go on my own hook, and see if I couldn't make a better hand of it. 1899 J. London Let. 30 Mar. (1966) 26 When I was just sixteen I broke loose and went off on my own hook. 1927 E. W. Springs Nocturne Militaire vi. 178 You know a man has to be crazy to go after a balloon on his own hook. 1940 M. Lowry Let. in Sel. Lett. (1967) 21 They objected to my going east on my own hook..because they would not trust me. 1952 F. Yerby Woman called Fancy xvi. 307 I'm not going out of this house with you on my own hook. b. to sling (also take) one's hook: to go away, be off, decamp. slang or dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] wendeOE i-wite971 ashakec975 shakeOE to go awayOE witea1000 afareOE agoOE atwendOE awayOE to wend awayOE awendOE gangOE rimeOE flitc1175 to fare forthc1200 depart?c1225 part?c1225 partc1230 to-partc1275 biwitec1300 atwitea1325 withdrawa1325 to draw awayc1330 passc1330 to turn one's (also the) backc1330 lenda1350 begonec1370 remuea1375 voidc1374 removec1380 to long awaya1382 twinc1386 to pass one's wayc1390 trussc1390 waive1390 to pass out ofa1398 avoida1400 to pass awaya1400 to turn awaya1400 slakec1400 wagc1400 returnc1405 to be gonea1425 muck1429 packc1450 recede1450 roomc1450 to show (a person) the feetc1450 to come offc1475 to take one's licence1475 issue1484 devoidc1485 rebatea1500 walka1500 to go adieua1522 pikea1529 to go one's ways1530 retire?1543 avaunt1549 to make out1558 trudge1562 vade?1570 fly1581 leave1593 wag1594 to get off1595 to go off1600 to put off1600 shog1600 troop1600 to forsake patch1602 exit1607 hence1614 to give offa1616 to take off1657 to move off1692 to cut (also slip) the painter1699 sheera1704 to go about one's business1749 mizzle1772 to move out1792 transit1797–1803 stump it1803 to run away1809 quit1811 to clear off1816 to clear out1816 nash1819 fuff1822 to make (take) tracks (for)1824 mosey1829 slope1830 to tail out1830 to walk one's chalks1835 to take away1838 shove1844 trot1847 fade1848 evacuate1849 shag1851 to get up and get1854 to pull out1855 to cut (the) cable(s)1859 to light out1859 to pick up1872 to sling one's Daniel or hook1873 to sling (also take) one's hook1874 smoke1893 screw1896 shoot1897 voetsak1897 to tootle off1902 to ship out1908 to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909 to push off1918 to bugger off1922 biff1923 to fuck off1929 to hit, split or take the breeze1931 to jack off1931 to piss offa1935 to do a mick1937 to take a walk1937 to head off1941 to take a hike1944 moulder1945 to chuff off1947 to get lost1947 to shoot through1947 skidoo1949 to sod off1950 peel1951 bug1952 split1954 poop1961 mugger1962 frig1965 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 295 Sling your hook, a polite invitation to move-on. 1885 O. Allan Sinbad the Sailor 22 I ‘took the office’ and I took my hook. 1886 M. Peacock Tales & Rhymes Lindsey Folk-speech 106 An' soa he teks his hook back agaain to steam-hoose yard. 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 34 Before you sling your 'ook, at the 'ousetops take a look. 1892 ‘F. Anstey’ Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs 130 Take your 'ook while you can. 1897 Daily News 1 Sept. 2/2 If you don't sling yer hook this minute, here goes a pewter pot at yer head. 1928 Daily Express 10 May 7 Magistrate: How is your husband cruel to you? Wife: He will not speak to me, and he tells me to sling my hook. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxii. 193 Anyhow, she's gone, walked out, slung her hook. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 193 Expressions inviting a person's departure, for instance:..sling your hook, split the breeze, [etc.]. P4. hook, line, and sinker: completely, without reservations. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > in full or to fullest extent > fully or without exceptions or qualifications quite and cleana1175 for odd or evenc1425 the fullness of timec1425 in toto1798 sans phrase1808 hook, line, and sinker1838 1838 G. W. Patterson in T. W. Barnes Mem. T. Weed (1884) v. 60 We are gone, hook, line, and sinker. 1865 Weekly New Mexican 25 Aug. 1/3 Without him Chavez [sc. a candidate for Congress] is gone hook, line, and sinker. 1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 59 The old man swallowed those references of yours, hook, line and sinker. 1936 N. Coward To-night at 8.30 II. 58 I fell for it hook, line and sinker. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited i. ii. 38 You, my dear Charles,..have gone straight, hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. < as lemmas |
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