| 词汇 | have fishhooks in one-s pocket |
| 词源 | have fishhooks in one’s pocket. To be very cheap. First re- corded in 1913, the Americanism may have originated much earlier with Long Island, New York, sea captain Samuel Mul- ford. Mulford lined his pockets with fishhooks to foil pickpock- ets when he visited London before the American Revolution. His ploy worked. |
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