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
This he doesn’t touch, preferring to run into debt each day and to pay up the next, as shown in Fig. 61a.
From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by Mills, John
If they spend more than they earn, they will run into debt.
From Thrift by Smiles, Samuel
Young ladies' extravagance ought to be met By teaching them—never to run into debt.
From Mrs. Turner's Cautionary Stories by Turner, Elizabeth
