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by hook or by crook
"By hook or by crook" is an English phrase meaning "by any means necessary", suggesting that any means possible should be taken to accomplishing the goal. The phrase is very old, first recorded in the Middle English text ''Controversial Tracts'' by John Wyclif in 1380.
〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=By hook or by crook )〕 One suggestion for the origin of the phrase is that it comes from the customs regulating which firewood local people could take from common land; they were allowed to take any branches that they could reach with a billhook or a shepherd's crook.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Forests and Chases of England and Wales: A Glossary )〕 The word ''crook'' comes from a shepherds crook, used to hook sheep, while ''hook'' may simply suggest a hook.
The phrase was famously featured in the opening credits to the 1960s British television series ''The Prisoner''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Prisoner )〕 It also appears prominently (as "by hook and by crook") in the short stories "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" by Ernest Hemingway〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Snows of Kilimanjaro - E. Hemingway )〕 and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving )〕
==References==
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