take one's hook
English
editVerb
edittake one's hook (third-person singular simple present takes one's hook, present participle taking one's hook, simple past took one's hook, past participle taken one's hook)
- (slang, intransitive, idiomatic) To depart in a hurry; to clear out.
- Synonyms: hook it, sling one's hook
- 1893, Parker Gillmore, Leaves from a Sportsman's Diary, page 131:
- I'll have none of you fellows dangiing about here; my daughter is off to Cairo, so is the old woman, and I guess that she was hitched to Elisha Kent yesterday! Now take your hook.
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary