By Hook or By Crook - English Idiom

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Published at : 24 Sep 2021
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Hundreds of years ago, villagers were allowed to collect natural resources from private wooded areas. But they could only take as much as their farm tools, like their hooks and crooks, could gather. But what does the idiom ‘By hook or by crook’ mean today?

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