get one’s hooks into someone
get (one's) hooks into (someone or something)
To gain control or influence over someone or something, especially with an ulterior motive. Because of my family's fortune, my parents always worry that any girl I date is just trying to get her hooks into me for my money.
See also: get, hook
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
get one’s hooks into someone
tv. [for a woman] to succeed in “capturing” a specific man. When she got her hooks into him, she decided he wasn’t so great after all.
See also: get, hook, someone
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- get (one's) hooks in
- get (one's) hooks into (someone or something)
- get hooks in
- get one’s hooks into something
- get your hooks into somebody
- get your hooks into someone
- expropriate
- expropriate (something) from (someone or something)
- go along
- go along with