Noun
A hook for catching fish.
A hook with a pendant, to the end of which the fish-tackle is hooked.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart. Peter De Vries
Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it. Ann Patchett
Gold is the devil's fishhook. American Proverb
The crane was killed by the fishhook. Vietnamese Proverb
Gold is the devil's fishhook. Italian Proverb