in hock

介词短语
中文释义

英文释义

介词短语
  1. Having been pawned.
    — Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.
  2. Indebted. broadly,figuratively
    — 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.

词源

From Dutch hok (“hutch, hovel, jail, pen, doghouse”).
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