Hook, Line and Sinker

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The hook, line, and sinker are the three essential pieces of fishing tackle in angling. In the English language, the phrase "to swallow something 'hook, line, and sinker'" is an idiomatic expression used to describe a situation where a person or group accepts wholesale and uncritically an idea or set of beliefs.

See further:

• Hook, line, and sinker, fishing equipment
• Hook, Line and Sinker (1930 film), a slapstick comedy starring Wheeler & Woolsey
• Hook, Line & Sinker (1969 film), a comedy starring Jerry Lewis
• Hook, Line and Sinker (Transformers), characters in Marvel's Transformers comics
• Hook, Line and Sinker (TV program), Australian television fishing show

See also

• Hook, Line and Stinker, a Looney Tunes cartoon
• Hook, Lion and Sinker, a Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and Louie the Mountain Lion.
• Spy Hook, Spy Line, and Spy Sinker, a series of spy novels by Len Deighton.
• Fish or cut bait (fellow fishing-theamed idiom).