run into debt

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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

For Code received his insurance without a dispute and, not long afterward, while in Boston for the purpose, had picked up the almost new Charming Lass from a Gloucester skipper who had run into debt.

From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.

Nevertheless, they worked on in hope, but what was termed their “luck” became worse and worse every day, so that at last they were obliged to run into debt.

From Philosopher Jack by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

In a state of dependence, and with a fettered commerce, though with all the advantages of peace, her trade could not balance herself, and she annually run into debt.

From A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up by Paine, Thomas