英语词汇angle with a silver hook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	angle with a silver hook
词源	angle with a silver hook. An unlucky fisherman who fails to catch anything doesn’t want to go home empty-handed. Thus when he buys fish (with silver coin, in past times) to conceal his abject failure, he is said to angle with a silver hook.
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