off the hook 的定义
- Also, get or let off the hook. Released from blame or annoying obligation, as in He was out of town during the robbery so he was off the book, or I don't know how the muggers got off the hook, or Once they found the real culprit, they let Mary off the hook. This idiom alludes to the fish that manages to free itself from the angler's hook and get away. [Mid-1800s]
off the hook 近义词
等同于 unattached
等同于 exempt
等同于 free
off the hook 的近义词 39 个
- able
- at large
- clear
- easy
- independent
- loose
- open
- unfettered
- unrestricted
- allowed
- disengaged
- escaped
- familiar
- forward
- frank
- liberal
- liberated
- permitted
- relaxed
- at liberty
- casual
- fancy-free
- footloose
- free-spirited
- free-wheeling
- informal
- lax
- on one's own
- on the loose
- unattached
- uncommitted
- unconfined
- unconstrained
- unengaged
- unhampered
- unimpeded
- unobstructed
- unregulated
- untrammeled
off the hook 的反义词 28 个
更多off the hook例句
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- “I think for trans men who are dating every time they hook up they have another coming out,” Sandler said.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
- You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
- Mr. Slocum was not educated in a university, and his life has been in by-paths, and out-of-the-way places.
- Only then did I own that by hook or by crook—and mostly by crook, I was forced to suspect—they had purposely given me the slip.