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
The next rule is to pay ready money, and never, on any account, to 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
Nevertheless, they worked on in hope, but what was termed their “luck” became worse and worse every day, so that at last they were obliged to run into debt.
From Philosopher Jack by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
