get hooked
Examples
Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted to painlessness. That tells you a lot.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.