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Definition of Hook line and sinker
1. Adverb. In every detail. "He believed her story hook, line, and sinker"
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Literary usage of Hook line and sinker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"Eventually the Romans swallowed Greek civilisation hook, line and sinker.
They even welcomed the Gods of the Greeks to their country. ..."
2. Life of Thurlow Weed Including His Autobiography and a Memoir by Thurlow Weed, Harriet A. Weed, Thurlow Weed Barnes (1884)
"Lee be nominated, we are gone, hook, line, and sinker. We of the West must have
something more than a ' yearling' to vote for, or we will bolt. ..."
3. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"PS I need hardly assure you that if I ever have charge of an Administration this
whole assessment business will go up, "hook, line and sinker. ..."
4. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"Well, he rose to the bait like a trout and swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker.
I pinned him down to an absolute promise, and it's just possible that he ..."
5. The Book of Daniel Drew: A Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed Régime from the by Bouck White (1910)
"I saw that this Hudson River route to Albany was making no end of money, and I
wanted to own it, hook, line and sinker. So I picked a quarrel with one of my ..."
6. Smoke and Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War by Rob Cunningham (1996)
"Once you're hooked, ... they [the tobacco companies] have got you hook, line,
and sinker. It's a crock that tobacco companies say tobacco is not harmful to ..."
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