means literally to put on a hook, or to hook on. Those who hook on a little here and a little there. (French, en croc, on a hook.)
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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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