in hock
Example Sentences
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On Saturday, Cabinet Minister Lucy Powell told the BBC Labour was "not in hock" to vested interests "at all", and had declared donations correctly.
From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024
When the couple’s overly expensive apartment burns down and the insurance doesn’t come through, they are in hock for the mortgage and Elena must undergo a “forced donation” of 40 years at once.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2023
Sure, Sang-hyeon, who runs a hand laundry, and cohort Dong-soo, who works at said church, could use the dough; times are tight and, on the front burner, Sang-hyeon is in hock to the local mob.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2022
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
To-day there will arrive and also be put in hock the three gents whose names you have there.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Franck, Harry Alverson
