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Phrase(s): hook someone on something Fig. to addict someone to a drug or alcohol. • Careful, or you’ll hook yourself on those tranquilizers. • Some friend at school hooked Roger on dope. • Sharon has hooked herself on cocaine.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): hook oneself on someone or something Fig. to become enamored of someone or something. • I’m afraid I’ve hooked myself on Alice. • He hooked himself on Bach organ music.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Phrase(s): hook something on(to someone or something) [and] hook something on to attach something to someone or something by a hook. • Hook this sign on her and let her walk around advertising our play. • Hook on the sign and hope that it stays. • Hook it onto the tree carefully.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs