get one's hooks into someone

get (one's) hooks into (someone or something)

To gain control or influence over someone or something, especially with an ulterior motive. Because of my family's fortune, my parents always worry that any girl I date is just trying to get her hooks into me for my money. That conniving creep has been trying to get his hooks into my family's company for years. I used to love this franchise up until the Malt Tisney Corporation got their hooks into it.

See also: get, hook

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get one’s hooks into someone

tv. [for a woman] to succeed in “capturing” a specific man. When she got her hooks into him, she decided he wasn’t so great after all.

See also: get, hook, someone

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