hook, line, and sinker

hook, line, and sinker
Hook, line, and sinker
If somebody accepts or believes something hook, line, and sinker, they accept it completely.

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  • hook, line, and sinker — COMPLETELY, totally, utterly, entirely, wholly, absolutely, through and through, one hundred per cent, lock, stock, and barrel. → hook * * * hook, line, and sinker phrase believing something completely, usually something that is not true I told… …   Useful english dictionary

  • hook, line and sinker — {adv. phr.}, {informal} Without question or doubt; completely. * /Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe s story, hook, line and sinker./ * /Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hook, line and sinker — {adv. phr.}, {informal} Without question or doubt; completely. * /Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe s story, hook, line and sinker./ * /Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • hook,\ line\ and\ sinker — adv. phr. informal Without question or doubt; completely. Johnny was so easily fooled that he fell for Joe s story, hook, line and sinker. Mary was such a romantic girl that she swallowed the story Alice told her about her date, hook, line and… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • hook, line, and sinker — mod. totally. □ She fell for it hook, line, and sinker. □ They believed every word hook, line, and sinker …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • hook, line, and sinker — entirely: he fell hook, line, and sinker for the joke. → hook …   English new terms dictionary

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