in hock
Example Sentences
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On Saturday, Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell told the BBC Labour was "not in hock" to vested interests "at all", and had declared donations correctly.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024
Sure, Sang-hyeon, who runs a hand laundry, and cohort Dong-soo, who works at said church, could use the dough; times are tight and, on the front burner, Sang-hyeon is in hock to the local mob.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022
But for most of them, leaving would mean breaking their contracts and leaving family members in Vietnam in hock to labor brokers and loan sharks who paid their way to Serbia, the workers say.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2022
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
Then if I haul the guy here and it don't work, I'm in hock to you.
From At the Post by Gold, H. L. (Horace Leonard)
