Hook, Line and Sinker
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The Hook, Line and Sinker are the three essential pieces of fishing tackle in angling. Also, in English language, the phrase 'to swallow something "hook, line and sinker" ' is an idiomatic expression to describe a situation where a person or group accepts wholesale and uncritically an idea or set of beliefs.
See further:
- Hook, line and sinker, fishing equipment
- Hook, Line and Sinker (1930 film), a slapstick comedy starring Wheeler & Woolsey
- Hook, Line & Sinker (1969 film), a comedy starring Jerry Lewis
- Hook, Line and Sinker (Transformers), characters in Marvel's Transformers comics
- Hook, Line and Sinker (TV program), Australian television fishing show
See also
- Hook, Line and Stinker, a Looney Tunes cartoon
- Hook, Lion & Sinker, a Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Louie the Mountain Lion.
- Spy Hook, Spy Line, and Spy Sinker, a series of spy novels by Len Deighton.
- Fish or cut bait (fellow fishing-theamed idiom).
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