Hob’s Pound
. To be in Hob’s pound is to be under difficulties, in great embarrassment. Hob is a clownish rustic, and hoberd is a fool or neʹer-do-well. To be in Hob’s pound is to be in the pound of a hob or hoberd—i.e. paying for one’s folly.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.