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
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
More than any other sport, modern track and field is in hock to the major sportswear brands that sustain it – some would say to an unhealthy degree.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 2, 2015
A "tied in" hock predisposes the subject to curb, and an animal having powerful and well-developed hips and imperfectly formed hocks, will, if subjected to heavy work, be a favorable subject for bone spavin.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by John Victor Lacroix
