| 词汇 | hook line and sinker |
| 词源 | hook, line, and sinker. Any extremely gullible person who swallows a fantastic yarn hook, line, and sinker is like a hungry fish who gulps down not only the fisherman’s baited hook but the entire tackle. This Americanism has been traced back to the age of Davy Crockett, when tall tales hooked many a fish hun- gry for belief. But a 16th-century British expression, to swallow a gudgeon (a small bait fish), conveyed the same idea. |
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