🔹Essential American Idioms🔹


⭐️#ACCOUNTING:


✨Balance the accounts AND balance the books
▶️ to determine through accounting that accounts are in balance, that all money is accounted for.

🔻Jane was up all night balancing the accounts.

🔻The cashier was not allowed to leave the bank until the manager balanced the books.

✨Cook the accounts
▶️ to cheat in book-keeping; to make the accounts appear to balance when they do not.

🔻Jane was sent to jail for cooking the accounts of her mother's store.

🔻It's hard to tell whether she really cooked the accounts or just didn't know how to add.


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