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
She will not run into debt; and she's quite right; so we have to manage with what we've got in the convent.
From Sister Teresa by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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)
The next rule is to pay ready money, and never, on any account, to run into debt.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
