go into hock
Example Sentences
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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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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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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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Says Ford Division Chief Donald Frey: "The willingness of the consumer to go into hock has reached a plateau."
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