in hock
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He has faced criticism in the past for arguing, external that the UK had "got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
All instances of anything approximating love or tenderness arrive in hock to cruelty.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
Thar's a broke-down sport—this yere's long ago while I'm briefly sojournin' in Socorro—who's got a opal, an' he one day puts it in hock with a kyard sharp for a small stake.
From Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis
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