"bleed red ink" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-bleed red ink.ogg Forms: bleeds red ink [present, singular, third-person], bleeding red ink [participle, present], bled red ink [participle, past], bled red ink [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|*|bled red ink}} bleed red ink (third-person singular simple present bleeds red ink, present participle bleeding red ink, simple past and past participle bled red ink)
  1. (idiomatic) To suffer from severe net losses. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: in the red
    Sense id: en-bleed_red_ink-en-verb-BOutOMnz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Colors, Idioms about Colors, Reds

Inflected forms

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