hook, line, and sinker

So when I’m with somebody that’s really invested and committed to runes or tarot, I am hook, line and sinker in.

Cardinal David recalled how President Duterte "loved to wave" a book called "Altar of Secrets", an expose of alleged scandals in the Filipino church, and how he would say, "oh, those hypocrites. Don't listen to them. They don't practice what they what they preach. They are abusers. I must say some people swallowed it hook, line and sinker. So I am not surprised that our moral credibility has been challenged."

“It was false, but America bought it hook, line and sinker. Unfortunately, it unlocked a lot of the most extreme demons of capitalism.”

A few years after my drink with Brooks — and after the dubious ascent of Bush to the White House in 2000, and the Iraq War had caught and carried Brooks hook, line and sinker in his New York Times columns — I lacerated him in my own columns, perhaps especially this one.

"And they fell for it hook, line and sinker."