on the hook

1. 1.

   caught in a difficult or dangerous situation

   “there I was back on the hook”

   Similardangerous

Questions about on the hook

What does on the hook mean?

on the hook means "caught in a difficult or dangerous situation".

Is on the hook a common word?

on the hook is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.