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
In short, he was going to see his friend Gottlieb Adler, to inform him that his son, Ferdinand, had run into debt abroad, and subsequently to exhort the father to forgive his prodigal son.
From More Tales by Polish Authors by Various
She had run into debt, and then repudiated her debts.
From Lady Anna by Trollope, Anthony
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)
