hook and eye
钩眼,钩眼式,钩挂式,钩针
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- : a two-piece clothes fastener, usually of metal, consisting of a hook that catches onto a loop or bar.
- : a three-piece latching device consisting of a hook attached to a screw eye or an eyebolt and a separate screw eye or eyebolt that the hook engages as it bridges a gap, as one between a door and a jamb or a gate and a gatepost.
- : Also called eyehook. the two-piece portion of such a device consisting of a hook and a screw eye.
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As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
“I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
If the oft-talked-about college “hook-up culture” could be embodied by a place, it would be Shooters.
But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.
As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.
As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.
Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.
She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.