with a hook

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UK, Obsolete, Slang Appended to a statement to indicate that one does not believe it.

[…] nor did the cruel sarcasm of "Oh, yes, with a hook!" — which some courtier would throw in — divert her at all from her humble purpose.1864, Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, John Leech, The Comic History of England (page 255)
Mr. Bartley thinks himself a capital speech-maker. — (Yes — with a hook.)1838, Actors by Daylight, volume 1, page 176:

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