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hock
1. being totally lame in the hock to being completely
2. Quickly rolling onto his side, he bent double, so that he could see what his leg had become trapped in, and discovered it was a strong, pliable plant stem, which had wrapped itself around his leg just above the hock
3. Judges will tell you that most embezzlement results not from some master mind wanting to take advantage of other people, but rather from some poor soul who has gotten himself in hock to the point where he sees no other way out
4. “What makes you think that Chris will just let me walk over there?” the whole game Chris had his eye on me like a hock
5. First he settled accounts temporarily and got his VW out of hock
6. 1 carrot, finely chopped fresh ground pepper 1 small onion, chopped 2 slices of ham, chopped Place the split peas into a large pot with the ham hock (or ham bone,) carrot, onion, rutabaga, and water
7. Remove the ham hock and let it cool
8. Place the ham hock, lentils, water, bay leaf, and thyme into a large Dutch oven and bring to a boil
9. All they see there is people coming in to hock their Playstation for booze money
10. When they find out that they’ve become insignificant others while abroad, they hock these items in the plethora of pawn shops that dot this town like chicken pox
11. It has conflated the interests of party and state, dishing out contracts for public works as rewards for loyalty—hence the bitter jest that the government is in hock to ‘tenderpreneurs’
12. It is self-evident that US Presidents are in hock to various financial interests
13. Hock in green glasses
14. where hock and claret glasses shimmered and in their midst a shell
15. Robinson didn’t hock everything he had and take out every loan he could to see that his child lived
16. But it had never occurred to him that he should live in any other than what he would have called an ordinary way, with green glasses for hock, and excellent waiting at table
17. He also was in hock several thousand dollars for gambling debts
18. That ham hock of a head swiveled to acknowledge Jezza and me
19. This idea was created by Seng Hock Tan, CEO of Aegis Group of Companies, a Singapore-based investment management organization, who came up with this classification while watching a Discovery channel program about lions and hyenas
20. But maybe he was one of the legitimate ones, the new poor just starting out this winter, not a beggar ever before, so you hock your clothes to feed a stomach and wind up a man in the rain without a cap
