English of the Day

Idiom of the Day

📚cook the books cook the accounts

✍🏾Meaning: If someone cooks the books, or cooks the accounts, they keep inaccurate accounts for a business, usually in order to pay less tax.

❕For example:

🔺Their accountant was charged with cooking the books, and now he's in jail.

🔺I found this website that shows you how to cook the accounts, but I'd never try doing it.

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