- swallow the hook line and sinker
- believe everything one hears
English contemporary dictionary. 2014.
swallow the hook line and sinker
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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
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
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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
bite — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. morsel, scrap; nip. v. cut; snap, snip; corrode; sting. See food, littleness, pungency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [What one takes in the mouth at one time] Syn. mouthful, cud, chew, taste, spoonful,… … English dictionary for students
fall for — 1) she fell for John Syn: fall in love with, become infatuated with, lose one s heart to, take a fancy to, be smitten with/by, be attracted to; informal have the hots for 2) she won t fall for that trick Syn: be deceived by, be duped by, be… … Thesaurus of popular words
Angling — is a method of fishing by means of an angle (hook).The hook is usually attached by a line to a fishing rod. A bite indicator such as a float is sometimes used. The rod is usually fitted with a fishing reel that functions as a mechanism for… … Wikipedia
