in hock

English

Prepositional phrase

in hock

  1. Having been pawned.
    Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.
  2. (figuratively, by extension, transitive with to) Indebted.
    • 2022 June 5, Ezra Klein, “Your Kids Are Not Doomed”, in The New York Times‎:
      The wind doesn’t stop blowing because an autocrat has a tantrum; harnessing the solar radiation that bathes our world doesn’t leave us in hock to the House of Saud.
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