英语词汇on your own hook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	on your own hook
词源	on your own hook. In the 19th century, fishermen on boats fishing the Grand Banks were paid according to what they caught individually on their own hooks and lines. To this prac- tice we owe the expression to be on your own hook, “to be on your own.”
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