hock的意思|hock的解释-里氏词典

Hock \Hock\, v. t.
1. To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to
hamstring; to hough.

2. To pawn; as, to hock one's jewelry.
[PJC]

Hock \Hock\, n.
1. The state of having been pawned; usually preceded by in;
as, all her jewelry is in hock.
[PJC]

2. The state of being in debt; as, it took him two years to
get out of hock.
[PJC]

Hock \Hock\, n. [So called from Hochheim, in Germany.]
A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or
still. The name is also given indiscriminately to all Rhenish
wines.

Hock \Hock\, Hough \Hough\, n. [ AS. h?h the heel; prob. akin to
Icel. h[=a]sinn hock sinew, Dan. hasc, G. hechse, h["a]chse,
LG. hacke, D. hak; also to L. coxa hip (cf. {Cuisses}), Skr.
kaksha armpit. [root]12. Cf. {Heel}.]
1.
(a) The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the
leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding
to the ankle in man.
(b) A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the
front or hind leg, just above the foot.

2. The popliteal space; the ham.

He says, "At the current rate we will either be in total hock to the outside world or the outside world will own us."
In the early 1980s, long before junk bonds put a pin-striped gloss on going into hock, Mr. Farley parlayed promissory notes into a dozen plants making such unglamorous items as screws and pinsetters for bowling alleys.
Are consumers too deep in hock?
"Everything is in hock."
He has put the nation in hock to the hilt, and mortgaged the future of our children and their children.
But, given that the party is in hock to the tune of Pounds 19m, it was a case of all hands on deck to rouse the party faithful. So how odd to find Lord Archer no longer running the raffle.
Some U.S. bankers and corporations say that if they had realized just how much some countries were in hock and just how fragile their economies were, they would have curtailed their lending and investing sooner.
The hock is sort of a backward ankle on a horse's hind leg, a long way from the neck.
The national party was deeply in debt and widely perceived as being in hock to all kinds of contentious special interests.
Many of the roughly 8,000 U.S. pawnbrokers report that white-collar professionals who just a few years ago wouldn't be caught dead near their shops are skulking in to hock their Rolex watches, diamond rings and other symbols of the fast-cash '80s.
Across the street, at Monte de Piedad, the national pawnshop, dozens of people lined up early on a recent morning to hock their valuables for a little money to meet expenses.
We're putting our children irreparably in hock; we're approaching an economic point of no return.
Last spring, some terrified students even tried to hock their traditional dance costumes to raise money to go home early.

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