in hock
Example Sentences
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In an interview with the New Statesman last year, Burnham said the government had to "get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".
From BBC • May 15, 2026
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
His jewelry had been in hock for two years.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2015
Bad Jack is doing a ten-year stretch in Sing Sing, Clever Charley is in hock at Joliet, and Sweet William is the only one who is at large—it must be William.'
From Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by Howe, William F.
