"drop off the hooks" meaning in English

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      "form": "dropping off the hooks",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
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      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret:",
          "text": "\"You'd do harm if you dared to,\" the woman said. \"You'd like to kill him. […] We don't want him to drop off the hooks. Not much!'",
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      "glosses": [
        "To die."
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die."
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bite the dust"
        },
        {
          "word": "buy the farm"
        },
        {
          "word": "kick the bucket"
        },
        {
          "word": "die"
        }
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  "word": "drop off the hooks"
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      "form": "drops off the hooks",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "dropping off the hooks",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dropped off the hooks",
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          "ref": "1921, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, The Great Pearl Secret:",
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        "To die."
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die."
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          "word": "bite the dust"
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          "word": "buy the farm"
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