in arrears

in arrears {adv. phr.}

Late or behind in payment of money or in finishing something. — Usually used of a legal debt or formal obligation.

Poor Mr. Brown! He is in arrears on his rent.

He is in arrears on the story he promised to write for the magazine.

Categories:

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

To section: I

Subscribe to: American Idioms

✉

Our RSS-channels

Show All

See as well

write-up

[write-up] {n.} A report or story in a newspaper or magazine. * /There was a write-up of the accident in the newspaper./ * /I read an interesting write-up about the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

write up

[write up] {v.} 1. To write the story of; describe in writing; give a full account of. * /Reporters from many newspapers are here to write up the game./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

write off

[write off] {v. phr.} 1. To remove (an amount) from a business record; cancel (a debt); accept as a loss. * /If a customer dies when he owes the store […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

add the finishing touches

[add the finishing touches] {v. phr.} To complete; finish. * /Mary's first novel promised to be excellent; however, her editor suggested that she should add some finishing touches before accepting […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Recent updates

ума не приложу

[ума не приложу] {v. phr.} [u`ma ne prilo`zhu] {literally} (I) cannot apply my mind. ~ (I) cannot understand, […]

Joe Jacobs

(1899-1940) U.S. boxing manager, about attending the U.S. baseball World Series in 1935 I should of stood in bed.

in toto

[in toto] {adv. phr.} As a whole; in its entirety; totally; altogether. * /The store refused the advertising agency's […]

put on the map

[put on the map] {v. phr.} To make (a place) well known. * /The first successful climb of Mount Matterhorn put Zermatt, […]