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red ink
1. slang. Cheap red wine; also applied to some other inferior alcoholic drinks. Chiefly U.S.
1919Red Cross Mag. Nov. 22/3 He at once took ten of his fellow students to a sixty-cent ‘red-ink’ and spaghetti dinner down on Tenth Street. 1926J. Black You can't Win xii. 153 Barrels of the deadly ‘foot juice’ or ‘red ink’, as the winos called it. 1930N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Feb. 19 Today's word ‘rum’ used in a broad sense to designate all kinds of forbidden liquors, may refer to..the ‘red ink’ of Greenwich Village. 1942H. W. Van Loon Lives 631 The wine problem was easily settled. Any kind of ‘red ink’ —any kind of that cheap Chianti..would be satisfactory. 1952E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iii. 140 You'd lie awake..with..the wine of passion poets blab about, a sour aftertaste in your mouth of Dago red ink! 1976W. H. Canaway Willow-Pattern War iii. 28 Lunch..was a real workaday snack this time: raclettes and rösti with a half-bottle of red ink.
2. U.S. colloq. The debit side of an account: cf. red n.1 1 g. Also in extended use.
1929Century Mar. 605/2 Red ink returns were as prolific as asparagus, which meant you..dug deep for the freight money. 1939S. Bent Newspaper Crusaders ii. 35 The long-drawn crusade whereby St. Louis was taken out of political red ink and put on the credit side of the electoral ledger merits examination. 1948Sun (Baltimore) 31 Jan. 1/3 We cannot play with red ink when we're financing a great government. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 7 May iv. 9/2 Give us enough red ink and make money plentiful enough and the economic skies will soon clear. 1977Time 28 Feb. 26/1 Carter's projected $57·4 billion deficit is an improvement over the $68 billion in red ink anticipated for fiscal 1977, which ends on Sept. 30. 1979Financial Rev. 19 Oct. 27/1 The company would report a loss of more than $US 3 million for the third quarter, bringing the red-ink figure for nine months close to $US 6 million. |