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with a hook en · ADP
Meanings
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(UK, obsolete, slang) Appended to a statement to indicate that one does not believe it.
[…] nor did the cruel sarcasm of "Oh, yes, with a hook!" — which some courtier would throw in — divert her at all from her humble purpose.
1864, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, John Leech, The Comic History of England (page 255)Mr. Bartley thinks himself a capital speech-maker. — (Yes — with a hook.)
1838, Actors by Daylight, volume 1, page 176: