go off the hooks

go off the hooks

obsolete To perish or die. If the Duke should go off the hooks before his will is revised, the estate would pass to his eldest son instead of me. And who, pray tell, will provide for you once I've gone off the hooks? Young Margaret could have gone off the hooks when her fever spiked last week, but she's made a miraculous recovery!

See also: go, hook, off

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off the hooks

dead. British informal

See also: hook, off

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