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
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 Lacroix, John Victor
