| 单词 | to cook the books |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cook the books P1. to cook the books: to fraudulently alter account books or other financial records; (also later in extended use) to alter any factual evidence in order to deceive or to suit a particular purpose. See sense 6. ΚΠ 1850 Morning Chron. 22 Jan. 3/1 The mode which Stratton adopted to mystify the accounts, and to ‘cook’ the books of the bank,..was only to be discovered by the closest investigation. 1924 D. Hammett Big Bk. of Continental Op (2017) 205/2 Your husband had been cooking the books for some time, and got into his partner for something like $200,000 before Ogburn got wise to it. 2003 Independent 4 Dec. (Review section) 3/3 There is no scientific debate in which the White House has cooked the books more than that of global warming. The Bush administration has altered, suppressed or attempted to discredit close to a dozen major reports on the subject. < as lemmas |
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