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debt
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*out of debt
no longer owing a debt. (*Typically: be ~; get ~; get oneself ~.) I've taken a second job so I can get myself out of debt.
See also: out

head over heels in debt

Fig. deeply in debt. Finally, when she was head over heels in debt, she cut up her credit cards. I couldn't stand being head over heels in debt, so I always pay off my bills immediately.
See also: head, heel

in debt

having debts; having much debt; owing money. Mary is deeply in debt. I am in debt to the bank for my car loan.

owe someone a debt of gratitude

a large amount of thanks owed to someone who deserves gratitude. (Actually payment of the debt is owed.) We owe you a debt of gratitude for all you have done for us.
See also: owe

pay one's debt (to society)

Cliché to serve a sentence for a crime, usually in prison. The judge said that Mr. Simpson had to pay his debt to society. Mr. Brown paid his debt in state prison.
See also: pay
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But Alfie's parents, Nicola and Dominic, say they will be forever in debted to her for her actions.
Carol will always be Alfie's Angel; As the deadline for 2009's Pride ... by The Mirror (London, England)
They said that (they) will not worship again any idols because they were, by the worship, debted yearly.
Making history: the modernity of masquerade in Ikole Ekiti by Rea, Will / African Arts
What luck the lady beetle brings, the grass yet marigold yellow as earth comes to light, flushed debted to snow, infusions of cold, all the workings of letting go to cold dominions, congresses of ice, speared clouds, the raked skies now, released we'd say, if the bitter were not in our mouths, the sour of the day after day reports of the fatalities and worse.
Spring Fatalities by McCorkle, James / Harvard Review
 
 
 
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