run into debt
Example Sentences
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Traditionally, employees at auction houses court collectors for years, waiting for them to divorce, run into debt, or die—the so-called “three ‘D’s.”
From The New Yorker • Jun. 27, 2016
Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures.
From Time Magazine Archive
This he doesn’t touch, preferring to run into debt each day and to pay up the next, as shown in Fig. 61a.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
Even at college his allowance had always been in excess of his needs, and so, though ever ready to help a friend in trouble, he had never run into debt on his own account.
From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)
She'd been stupid enough to run into debt.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
