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
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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
He was obliged to run into debt, and the interest of the money borrowed from his cousin was an additional burden.
From Shenac's Work at Home by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson
Before my illness I had got into extravagant ways and run into debt.
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed
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