red ink

red ink

Financial debts or losses. We don't feel confident investing in your company when there is so much red ink in your books. If our we're still bleeding red ink like this at the end of the quarter, we'll be in real danger of going bankrupt.
See also: ink, red
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

red ink

Fig. debt; indebtedness as shown in red ink on a financial statement. There is too much red ink in my financial statement. Too much red ink and the company will collapse.
See also: ink, red
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

red ˈink

(business) debts, losses or money that is owed: The company opened the fiscal year with $315.9 million in red ink. The health care industry is bleeding red ink (= losing a lot of money).
See also: ink, red
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

red ink

n. debt; indebtedness as shown in red ink on a financial statement. There is too much red ink in my financial statement.
See also: ink, red
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • (as) red as a rose
  • (as) red as blood
  • (as) red as a cherry
  • red as a cherry
  • ruby
  • (as) red as a ruby
  • (as) red as a poppy
  • poppy
  • handed
  • red
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Good condition with some signs of the effect of humidity and some amended and mutilated folios; 680 mm x 460 mm with five-line staves in black ink alternating music and text; 109 folios; no index; incomplete Arabic foliation in red ink; ff.
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With interest expense decreasing 5.2% to $55 million, Supervalu booked a pretax profit from ongoing lines of $64 million versus red ink of $267 million in the fiscal 2013 quarter.
Moreover, if you read Red Ink, you will be better informed than 98 percent of the population.
Adding to Shinsei's red ink was its nonbank affiliate, for which the Financial Services Agency called for an increase in loan loss reserves in light of stricter regulations on the interest rates such lending entities can charge, the sources said.
Using red ink, yellow sticky notes, as well as illustrations and collage techniques, Melanie Watt has produced a visual feast for the eyes which tells the humourous story of a prankster cat, but it also explores the world of artistic expression, creativity and the writing process.
Hospital industry leaders reported that next year's Arkansas Business' list would be covered with even more red ink because of the growing population of the uninsured and underinsured.
Experts predict more red ink in the mid-year earnings reports released this month from lenders such as New York Community Bank, Flushing Savings Bank and Astoria Federal Savings.
It is available in black, blue and red ink and has an SRP of $12.60 per dozen.
But others still received the marks because the examiner added the dot for the pupil in red ink, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said.
NEW YORK/BERLIN: Red ink is rising to record levels in the United States as bailout costs mount, budget experts warned on Friday, while Europe sought to expand funding to fight the burgeoning world financial crisis.
$30.86 billion in 2008, the second largest red ink after the previous year's $38.73 billion, reflecting sagging auto sales at home and abroad amid the global economic downturn.
(24) However, neither Kerby-Fulton nor Parsons realize that the Red-Ink Annotator has a characteristic paraph of his own in his usual shade of red ink, which he uses independently to mark places in the text (fig.
Anyone not showing a red ink stain on their finger would be asked later in a survey why they couldn't make it to the voting booth and would usually leave with a vivid red mark put somewhere on their body, so that they were not accidentally counted twice within the same rigorous survey.
Flowing script above, below, and in the center a circle of listeners in red ink. They are like a jury, caught in the various stages of thought, with something at once sketchlike and finished about them.