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means Fishing with hook and line — or, more broadly, maneuvering carefully toward something you want while pretending you're not.

from From Old English 'angel,' meaning fish-hook, itself tracing back to a root meaning 'bend' — the same root that gives us 'angle' the geometric term and 'ankle,' the bendy joint. A hook is just a sharpened bend in metal, so the fisherman's 'angle' and the mathematician's 'angle' are true cousins, both descended from the idea of something crooked rather than straight.