By hook or by crook

phr.

Heard in Wexford

By one means or another; whatever it takes. A phrase coined in Wexford.

In use

By hook or by Crook

Posh English

By one means or another.

  • Dind iv a hookThe very end or point of a fishing hook, often with the worm attached.
  • Butcher's hookDublin rhyming slang for 'look'.
  • Hat on a hookIn its proper or expected place. Well situated.
  • Left hook bai!A forceful warning of physical retribution delivered to an adversary.
  • S hookA particular level of extreme drunkenness.
  • Sling yer hookA blunt instruction to leave someone's house immediately.