on the hook
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Of an animal, slaughtered for food.
Example Sentences
- "on the hook for"
- "Well, you're off the hook for next Tuesday's meeting, but you're still on the hook for this Friday's deadline."
- "For now, at least, Mr. Wedell, who is a vice president at the Robinson-Humphrey Company, a subsidiary of Shearson Lehman, is still on the hook for unsettled claims."
- "Yes, incumbents of both parties—especially those incumbents facing tough re-election campaigns—don't want to be on the hook for this vote."
- "Could taxpayers really be on the hook for UAW pensions? Yes."
- "Cameron was getting pressure from the studio to try and have something that would be an additional powerful marketing tool. And because the studio was on the hook for this picture, for what they’d spent they were looking for every marketing opportunity that they could get."