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
He meticulously piles up the arguments of the witch-mongers and knocks them down; charmers, soothsayers, alchemists, conjurors and occultists aren’t in hock to the devil, he says, they are charlatans.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2020
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
ALGERNON: They are in hock for the moment, but see, here are the tickets.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
