in debt

Meaning

in debt

Having a debt to someone
Synonym: in the red
deeply in debt
fall in debt
up to one's eyeballs in debt
up to one's ears in debt

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broke bankrupt grateful needy indebted obligate penniless insolvent indigent thankful obliged moneyless bounden owing beholden

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solvent well-heeled minted

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them. Ernie Banks

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. John Buchan

A man in debt is so far a slave. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Going to bed without dinner is better than waking up in debt. Jamaican Proverb

Better go to bed supperless than to rise in debt. English Proverb

Better be in debt than in shame. Croatian Proverb

in debt

in days gone by in days past in debit in decline in declining health in decrement