get your 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 your hooks into someone
INFORMALIf someone gets their hooks into you, they control or influence you in a way that is difficult to escape from. `She's got her hooks into you,' taunted my male friends. The big industries like to get their hooks into the bright young people by helping to pay for their education.
See also: get, hook, someone
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- get (one's) hooks in
- get (one's) hooks into (someone or something)
- get hooks in
- get one’s hooks into someone
- get one’s hooks into something
- get your hooks into somebody
- expropriate
- expropriate (something) from (someone or something)
- go along
- go along with (someone or something)