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
It isn't as if we had been extravagant and run into debt.
From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
Yet they're fowk to be prood o', an' we shouldna let them overdo the thing, nor run into debt; na, na.
From A Window in Thrums by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
Correct and respectable persons do not run into debt.
From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various
