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Cherry Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

In the red

Could everyone explain clearly the meanting of phrase " in the red" and ' in the pink" ih this sentence please.

If you owe money to a bank, you are in the red. Also, if a person or a business is in the red, it means they are losing money.

If someone is in the pink, they are in good health.
  

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These are slang expressions. The explanations given seem OK to me. Can you be more specific about what you do not understand, please?

— Clive

  • These are slang expressions.
  • The explanations given seem OK to me.
  • Can you be more specific about what you do not understand, please?
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These are slang expressions. The explanations given seem OK to me.
Can you be more specific about what you do not understand, please?
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Thank you very much
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"in the red" = not making a profit, losing money
"in the black" = making a profit.

The idioms come in accounting, where a negative number (a loss) was written in red ink, and a positive number ( a profit) was written in black ink.

So when you add everything up for the year, if the final number was red, you were "in the red" and if the final number was black, you were "in the
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CherryCould everyone anyone explain clearly the meanings of phrase " in the red" and ' in the pink" in these sentences please.

If you owe money to a bank, you are in the red. Also, if a person or a business is in the red, it means they are losing money.
If someone is in the pink, they
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