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| крючок (Чтобы подобраться к нему поближе, мы послали к нему проститутку. Он попался на крючок. Теперь она может добыть информацию, которая нам нужна. We sent a call girl in order to get close to him. He swallowed the bait. Now she can steal the information we need. Мы сфотографировали его вместе с проституткой. Теперь он у нас на крючке и будет делать всё, что мы скажем. We photographed him with the call girl. Now we've got him on the hook-he'll do whatever we say.; хитрость, уловка, интрига, затеянные с целью поставить кого-либо в зависимое положение a trap or intrigue used to make someone dependent; the state of dependence after someone is caught in the trap) | |||
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the hooks : 259 phrases in 44 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 9 |
| Astronautics | 4 |
| Chess | 1 |
| Construction | 6 |
| Dialectal | 1 |
| Drilling | 1 |
| Electronics | 1 |
| Figurative | 3 |
| Figure of speech | 2 |
| Fishery fishing industry | 2 |
| General | 68 |
| Grass hockey | 2 |
| Idiomatic | 3 |
| Informal | 9 |
| Jargon | 1 |
| Literature | 1 |
| Makarov | 43 |
| Mass media | 1 |
| Microsoft | 2 |
| Military aviation | 1 |
| Military lingo | 2 |
| Mining | 1 |
| Nautical | 4 |
| Navy | 1 |
| Nonstandard | 1 |
| Obsolete / dated | 3 |
| Occupational health & safety | 1 |
| Oil and gas technology | 1 |
| Politics | 2 |
| Programming | 7 |
| Proverb | 4 |
| Road works | 1 |
| Roll stock | 1 |
| Sakhalin | 2 |
| Security systems | 1 |
| Shipbuilding | 1 |
| Slang | 51 |
| Technology | 4 |
| Telecommunications | 5 |
| Telephony | 1 |
| Textile industry | 1 |
| Uncommon / rare | 1 |
| Volleyball | 1 |
| Vulgar | 1 |