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On the hook

adjective

Caught in a difficult or dangerous situation.

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"On the hook" Quotes from Famous Books

... cord on the hook on one of the doors and then under pretence of play, it would be done. The boy would offer no resistance, and in a few minutes ...

— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... on individual letters. When, after infinite search, he discovered a word that had been misspelled, or a grammatical slip, he felt like a fisherman who, after waiting long and patiently, finally sees a fish dangling on the hook. ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... in it, so I could marvel at 'em. He fawned on that trunk. And at the last he showed me a little brass hook he had screwed into the side where the clothes hangers was. It was a very important hook. He hung the keys of the trunk on it; two keys, strung on a cord, and the cord neatly on the hook. This, he told me, was so the keys would never ...

— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... this uproar?" demanded the captain, all the more excited because he felt that things had reached a pass that would not permit him to laugh himself. "Do you fancy yourself on the Hook, or at ...

— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper

Words linked to "On the hook" : unsafe, dangerous