Jane was charged with cooking the accounts of her mother's store.
•It's hard to tell whether she really cooked the accounts or just didn't know what she was doing.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
cook the books — (informal) To falsify accounts, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑cook * * * cook the books phrase to change accounts and figures dishonestly, usually in order to get money Thesaurus: accounts, accountancy and accountantshypernym types of tax and taxation … Useful english dictionary
cook the books — If people cook the books, they keep false accounts to make money illegally or avoid paying tax … The small dictionary of idiomes
cook the books — Book Book (b[oo^]k), n. [OE. book, bok, AS. b[=o]c; akin to Goth. b[=o]ka a letter, in pl. book, writing, Icel. b[=o]k, Sw. bok, Dan. bog, OS. b[=o]k, D. boek, OHG. puoh, G. buch; and fr. AS. b[=o]c, b[=e]ce, beech; because the ancient Saxons and … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
cook the books — To deliberately falsify the financial statements of a company. This is an illegal practice. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * cook the books INFORMAL ► to give false information in a company s accounts in order to gain an advantage: »By… … Financial and business terms
cook the books — informal to record false information in the accounts of an organization, especially in order to steal money. One of the directors had been cooking the books and the firm had been losing money for years. (usually in continuous tenses) … New idioms dictionary
cook the books — A person who cooks the books is one who changes the facts or figures in the financial accounts, often in order to steal money. The actor discovered after a while that his agent was cooking the books … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
cook the books — to change accounts and figures dishonestly, usually in order to get money … English dictionary
Cook Strait — … Wikipedia
cook — 1. to kill Perhaps not from the usual culinary imagery, despite the attractions of derivation from cook your goose, to cause to fail. Possibly from execution by electricity: Those fucking sketches could cook him if we found the girl.… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
cook — cook1 cookable, adj. cookless, adj. /kook/, v.t. 1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting. 2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat. 3. Slang. to ruin; spoil. 4. Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to… … Universalium
Cook (servant) — 1855 Illustration of a Disgruntled Cook A cook is a household staff member responsible for food preparation. The term can refer to the head of kitchen staff in a great house or to the cook housekeeper, a far less prestigious position involving… … Wikipedia
