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in hock1Having been pawned: the family jewels are in hock already...- Worse: rather than being self-denying while you retrain for more lucrative employment, should you put the contents of your workshop in hock and live it up at the nearest Ritz-Carlton?
- In Washington, antiques, glasses and brassbound telescopes that had been in hock for decades are being snapped up by a rush of buyers.
- But, unlike pawnshops in most countries, the real business is a steady stream of people putting their homes in hock.
1.1In debt: the women were in hock to extortionate moneylenders...- In other words they are in hock to the government, who control their spending.
- Because it doesn't depend on heavy machinery, this farm, unlike most, isn't in hock to the bank’.
- The women were in hock to extortionate moneylenders.
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