swallow hook, line, and sinker

swallow hook, line, and sinker
See: HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • swallow hook, line, and sinker — See: HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • swallow\ hook,\ line\ and\ sinker — See: hook, line and sinker …   Словарь американских идиом

  • hook, line, and sinker — completely. The public isn t swallowing the administration s policies hook, line, and sinker. They made up such a good story that we fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Usage notes: often used in the forms fall for something hook, line, and… …   New idioms dictionary

  • hook line and sinker — to swallow a fantastic story. See also swallow a gudgeon …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • swallow the hook line and sinker — believe everything one hears …   English contemporary dictionary

  • swallow — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. ingest, gulp, devour, consume; absorb, engulf, assimilate, envelop; retract; bear, endure, submit to; believe, accept. See food, credulity, receiving. II (Roget s IV) n. Swallows include: bank,… …   English dictionary for students

  • swallow — v 1. gulp, guzzle, digest, engorge; eat, sup, down, Archaic. manducate; pop, drop; bolt, snap up, wolf down, dispatch, put down or away; drink, imbibe, quaff, belt, swill, swig; tipple, tope, toss off, throw back, knock back, Sl. chug a lug;… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • swallow — verb 1) she couldn t swallow anything Syn: eat, gulp down, consume, devour, put away; ingest, assimilate; drink, guzzle, quaff, imbibe, sup, slug; informal polish off, swig, chug, swill, down …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • swallow — Synonyms and related words: abide, abjure, ablate, absorb, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acquiesce, allow, and sinker, antelope, arrow, assent, assimilate, back down, back out, backwater, be a sucker, be agreeable, be… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • credulity — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Willingness to believe Nouns 1. credulity, credulousness, gullibility, ingenuousness, naiveté; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one s blind side; blind faith. See belief. 2. superstition, old… …   English dictionary for students

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