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
"That is to say, I am to run into debt in order to get rich," said the baron, shrugging his shoulders.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
No man should run into debt for a luxury, and every prudent man will have money in his purse for life's necessities.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.
There will be no want; for every man may keep as plentiful a house as he will, and never run into debt, for common stock pays for all.
From The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Berens, Lewis Henry
