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hock
verb as in pawn
Weak match
Example Sentences
The mayor has proposed raising taxes for higher earners and increasing borrowing to build council houses as he called for the government to "get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".
In the New Statesman, he said: "We've got to get beyond this thing of being in hock to the bond markets".
Ozzy and Sharon allowed the cameras to roll as they hurled a ham hock into a neighbor’s yard and a log through his window.
But he also hocks a family ring to put everything he owns on his poor odds to win, which seems reckless.
On Saturday, Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell told the BBC Labour was "not in hock" to vested interests "at all", and had declared donations correctly.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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