/ · 1894 Brewer’s · O · Off the Hooks
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Indisposed and unable to work. A door or gate off the hooks is unhinged, and does not work properly. Also, dead.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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