My account balance is "in the red." Once debt is paid, you're "in the black."
Positive numbers (credits) are denoted in black, and negative numbers (debits) are denoted in red. Being in the red means there is more debt than "cash on hand" and you are operating at a deficit.
To be in the red is to have overspent, to be in debt, to owe money.
You're in the red. The expression "in the red" refers to a color of ink. Handwritten accounting records in ledger books used to be kept in black ink for positive amounts and red ink for negative amounts. When the balance was written in the red ink, you had a balance below zero--a "minus" amount--meaning that you owed money. You were "in the red." There's no such thing as being below the red. You can't be more minus than minus. ---- * My finances are way below the red.
The business term "in the red" originated from the early days of accounting when negative numbers were recorded in the books with red ink. To be "in the red" is to be losing money or in debt. "In the black," similarly, means to be making money or a profit. The first use of the phrase in printed materials was published in 1926 in the book "Wise-Crack Dictionary" by George Maines and Bruce Grant.
You can say the word "in debt" using the word "red" by pronouncing it as "indebted" or "red in debt."
The word you are looking for is "redeem." It means to make something right or to correct a wrongdoing.
It means they are in debt.
My account balance is "in the red." Once debt is paid, you're "in the black."
The word ruber means red in Latin. The word roseus means rose-red. The word ravus means gray, and the word albus means white.
Could be Red Shoes, Red Dawn, or Red Heat.
It means profitable, or not in debt. It's the opposite of being "in the red".
Scarlet.
swatch
red blooded
It means to stop drinking red bull
red bird