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A Cambodian child, however, usually sees one strain at a time, and is a poor hook-up spot for the parasite.

What about real addicts, he wondered, poor wretches hooked on heroin or crack cocaine — or that new stuff, something meth — were their lives a series of grimly comic frustrations and inept subterfuges?

Illustrating his point, he launched again into "No Hook": " 'Poor me, Dad was gone, finally got my Dad back, liver bad, he wouldn't live long, it snatched my Dad back.' " He added that the song "takes you through this journey — his journey, my journey — so many people's journey that come from the areas that we come from".

Consider poor, misunderstood Captain Hook's take on the better-known version of Peter Pan.

Some observers worry that the extensions might let executives off the hook for poor performance.

His poor dismissal – a mistimed hook into his stumps – will have done little to assuage the doubters.

Public sector workers have traded less wage growth to be off the hook for poor equity market performance and rising health care costs.

Then, once she has her hooks in poor Darren Silverman Jason Biggsshe she demands sexual satisfaction without reciprocating, forces him to drink gin and tonic instead of domestic beer and insists that he sever all ties with his beloved buddies.

In case of poor pupillary dilatation, iris hooks were used or the pupil was stretched mechanically.

"American technology is overpowering the poor countries like India by hook or by crook," he said.

The Premiership champions were ­seething afterwards, feeling they had let Castres off the hook with their poor finishing.

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