hooked & hooker

Only recently I realised the metaphor behind hooked: If you’re on the hook, you’re addicted. OK wow yay – and ehm yes, quite straightforward, actually. So I wondered if there are any other metaphors with hooks. And obviously there’s hooker ‚prostitute’—Were they thought to lure their clients in…? Well, maybe. There’s a theory that attributes the development of this meaning of hooker to a US Civil War general called Hooker. Read on…