go into hock
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Says Ford Division Chief Donald Frey: "The willingness of the consumer to go into hock has reached a plateau."
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The "gamble" for gifted young English Pianist John Ogdon, 25, was whether to go into hock and cancel several engagements in order to compete in Moscow.
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In the "open-air museum" that is his homeland, he says, farmers go into hock to buy metal detectors, while Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs "sell better than Korans."
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If consumers in any month go into hock less rapidly than they did the month before, economists view their self-denial as a worrisome sign.
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And though the government has to go into hock to pay for the resuscitation, it eventually repays its deficit on the back of a newly resurgent Japan.
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