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单词 cook the books
释义

cook the books

idiomatic phrase

informal
: to alter official accounting records in order to deceive or mislead
Congress cooked the books with phony spending cuts and accounting gimmickry to appear to reduce the federal deficit. Colleen O'Connor

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above

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