with a hook
English
editPrepositional phrase
edit- (UK, slang, obsolete) Appended to a statement to indicate that one does not believe it.
- 1864, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, John Leech, The Comic History of England (page 255)
- […] nor did the cruel sarcasm of "Oh, yes, with a hook!" — which some courtier would throw in — divert her at all from her humble purpose.
- 1838, Actors by Daylight, volume 1, page 176:
- Mr. Bartley thinks himself a capital speech-maker. — (Yes — with a hook.)
- 1864, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, John Leech, The Comic History of England (page 255)
References
edit- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary