hook and eye
Example Sentences
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She wore boots laced up at the side, or long boots of soft leather fastened with hook and eye; shoes like a man’s, but not so pointed and extreme.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
—They're only in the hook and eye department, Myles Crawford said.
From Ulysses by James Joyce
Every hook and eye and button on my clothes is moored so tight that even the hand laundry can't tear 'em off.
From Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
She always had hooks off her dress, or a hook and eye put together that did not mate, or her dress was broken from its gathers.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
I can get them fer her easy enough; the twins have been helping her some, one with a sinker and the other with a hook and eye.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
