go into hock
Example Sentences
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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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And, speaking of assets, he was forced to go into hock, despite his wife's millions, and mortgage his primary possession--his Boston town house--in order to pay for the campaign.
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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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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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They may feel well off, but the only thing they can do about it is spend their paycheck or go into hock.
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