VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Red ink

Meaning:

a euphemism for financial loss.

Examples:

  • The last number—printed in red ink—appeared on May 19.
  • Eddie, there's a little matter of red ink in the financial statement.
  • Towards the middle of each, certain words are written in red ink.
  • So cheap, my goodness, I thought it would taste like red ink.
  • That's a lot of red ink.
  • While the legislation eliminates $220 million in red ink in the budget year that ends June 30, it technically doesn't reduce much larger shortfalls on the immediate horizon.
  • The writer corrects his mistakes in red ink or remove it.
  • There's plenty of red ink under your name too.
  • And the red ink means he got a promotion.
  • Noah, you can write it in the books in red ink.