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Off the hook

adjective

Freed from danger or blame or obligation.

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"Off the hook" Quotes from Famous Books

... lines taut, or he'll be wriggling through them and carry off the hook and line!" cried Tom. At last it was got up flush with the bulwarks, when down it came, knocking over poor Billy and two of the native crew. Had not Tom and Desmond rushed forward and hauled Billy out of ...

— The Three Admirals • W.H.G. Kingston

... chance and was perfectly delightful while it lasted. Was there ever a woman, since the world began, who did not know that sensation, either by experience or by wishing she might try it? What pleasure would there be in angling if the fish did not try to get off the hook, but stupidly swallowed it, fly and all? It might as well crawl out of the stream at once and lay itself meekly down ...

— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford

... "I could grab it, if I tried. It is just like what we call bullheads up in Pineville. I've caught 'em in our pond. You can hardly get 'em off the hook without getting ...

— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope

... said Hinpoha, joining in the conversation. "It went to a hundred and six and then it blew up and fell off the hook." ...

— The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle - The Trail of the Seven Cedars • Hildegard G. Frey

... had just been slaughtered, and was hanging on the hook; but it got off the hook alive and well and followed her; and the oxen, though they were ploughing, trailed the plough with them and did her bidding. So she fled to the lake again, they following her, and with them plunged ...

— Celtic Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

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