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- By_hook_or_by_crook abstract "\"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.The origin of the phrase is obscure, with multiple different explanations and no evidence to support any particular one over the others. For example, a commonly repeated suggestion is that it comes from Hook Head in Wexford, Ireland and the nearby village of Crook, in Waterford, Ireland. Another 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. The word crook has a shepherds crook, used to hook sheep, while hook may suggest a hook.The phrase was famously featured in the opening credits to the 1960s British television series The Prisoner. It also appears prominently (as \"by hook and by crook\") in the short stories \"The Snows of Kilimanjaro\" by Ernest Hemingway and \"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow\" by Washington Irving.".
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- By_hook_or_by_crook wikiPageWikiLink Waterford.
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- By_hook_or_by_crook wikiPageWikiLinkText "By hook or by crook".
- By_hook_or_by_crook wikiPageWikiLinkText "by hook or by crook".
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- By_hook_or_by_crook comment "\"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.The origin of the phrase is obscure, with multiple different explanations and no evidence to support any particular one over the others.".
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