in hock

English

Having been pawned.
Her necklace is in hock in order to cover some family expenses.
(figurative, by extension) Indebted. [with to ‘someone’]
- 2022 June 5, Ezra Klein, “Your Kids Are Not Doomed”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:
  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.