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
It isn't as if we had been extravagant and run into debt.
From Ethel Morton's Holidays by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
Ever since Sweeten last year got turned out of the headship of his house, and afterwards expelled, it’s seemed to me to be a risky thing for a fellow to run into debt.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Reed, Talbot Baines
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
