Meaning of off the hooks | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Unhinged; disturbed; disordered.
   colloquial
2. Superseded.
   archaic, colloquial
3. Dead.
   archaic, colloquial

Examples

“Or was Erskine out of his mind⟳? And he himself Watt was he not perhaps slightly deranged? And Mr. Knott himself, was he quite right in his head? Were they not all three perhaps a little off the hooks?”

“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.”

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