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red ink

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Origin of red ink¹

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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We’re sitting there looking at red ink, and it’s real red ink.

Mitch McConnell, for instance, has said he prefers it not to raise taxes, add no red ink and focus solely on hard projects like bridges and roads.

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Other oil majors also pointed to write-downs as the reason for all the red ink and parentheses.

But if the airlines saw only red ink, the owners of global satellite networks saw a lucrative new market.

As Washington chewed over the Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget deal, the Treasury Department announced a walloping drop in red ink.

Things are not O.K.” On the back of the page, she scrawled in red ink, “Are you even on my side?

Faced with this ocean of red ink, the Obama and Romney campaigns are busy claiming that the other guy wants to cut Medicare.

February updates were due Tuesday night, and Gingrich campaign officials were already preparing the media for the sea of red ink.

The Four Masters suggest a sort of red ink for this purpose.

They are generally cancelled with a pen and blue ink, or by the word "Paid" hand stamped in red ink, or by the dating stamp.

This might be plotted in black ink, then each individual student could put on his improvement in red ink, for comparison.

The three lines of red ink were as clear and telling as any three heads into which I had ever divided my discourse.

I had a gilt paper star pasted right there over Lloydsboro Valley, and a red ink line running to it from Arizona.

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