off the hooks

English

Prepositional phrase

off the hooks

  1. (colloquial) Unhinged; disturbed; disordered.
    • Samuel Pepys
      In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks that the ships are not gone out of the river.
  2. (colloquial, archaic) superseded
  3. (colloquial, archaic) dead

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