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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a fish hook" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of fishing tackle designed to catch fish.
Example: "He carefully tied a worm onto a fish hook before casting his line into the water."
Alternatives: "a fishing hook" or "a bait hook".
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Zamperini made the pin of his lieutenant's insignia into a fish hook, with little success.
I collect belt buckles and someone gave me one shaped like a fish hook.
In his later years, he was bent as a fish hook, and looked so old that strangers refused to believe he was only in his 90s.
Even the trip on which I stepped on a fish hook (after being told repeatedly not to walk around barefoot) did not dampen my enthusiasm.
An announcer then intoned, "Sorry Charlie, only good-tasting tuna get to be StarKist," and in many of the spots, a fish hook appeared, to which was attached a note reading, "Sorry Charlie".
Atwood's The Circle Game (1966), Power Politics (1971), and Two-Headed Poems (1978) are laconic, ironic commentaries on contemporary mores and sexual politics: "you fit into me / like a hook into an eye / a fish hook / an open eye".
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Bobby stretches his vocal cords to explain how love can sometimes exert a vice-like grip on a man, "just like a fish hooked on a line".
Eventually, they coaxed an alligator out with a fishing hook.
Steal a fishing hook and they hang you," read one oft-forwarded proverb.
The animals were all tagged and accounted for on a daily basis and any visible injuries -- like one that would be sustained by a fishing hook -- would have been noticed by the site's managers.
Anybody who knows a hook slide from a fishing hook knows there is more to this story.
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