in hock
Example Sentences
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In the New Statesman, he said: "We've got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
The Simon & Schuster transaction will leave the publisher $1 billion in hock, ratcheting up pressure to repay the debt — and turn a profit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
All instances of anything approximating love or tenderness arrive in hock to cruelty.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Determined to make money, Aldo has a long history of failed entrepreneurial ventures, leaving him in hock to a host of aggrieved investors.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2015
No one in camp has got Silver Phil on his mind at all; at least if he has he deems him safe an' shore in hock, a-waitin' to be stretched.
From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis
