balance the books | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,accounting)Toadd upall thedebitsandcredits.2021December 1, Philip Haigh, “TfL's deepening financial crisis puts Tube services at risk”, inRAIL, number945, page58:I hardly think that cancelling Yorkshire's HS2 line counts as levelling up, but must admit that the South has its troubles too - particularly in London, where Transport for London is facing the prospect of cutting services tobalance its books, as the pandemic continues to deter passengers and government appears unwilling to help.; To put or keep any closed orconservativesystem or its analysis in balance.1992, Margaret Walworth with Donald F. Moores and Terrence J. O'Rourke,A Free Hand: Enfranchising the Education of Deaf Children, page155:Let us notbalance the booksof oppression of the deaf on the backs and minds of other oppressed linguistic ethnic and cultural minorities.2007,John Gribbin,The Origins of the Future, page76:If you want to make a negatively charged particle, such as an electron, out of energy, you also have to make a positively charged particle tobalance the books.2003, T. J. MacGregor,Black Water, page358:When you broke one of his rules, you had to sacrifice something to earn forgiveness or tobalance the books.

Examples:

EN: First, I want to balance the books.
ES: Primero, hacer cuadrar las cuentas.
EN: Enough to balance the books, almost anyway.
ES: Lo suficiente para reequilibrar la balanza.
EN: I need to balance the books.
ES: Llegaré muy tarde.
EN: Look, Sally, you know I'd like to help you, but with the auditors coming in, I've got to balance the books.
ES: Mira, Sally, sabes que me gustaría ayudarte, pero con las auditorias, tengo que mantener el balance de los libros.
EN: "Scribble away and balance the books
ES: Garabatea y haz balance
EN: "Scribble away, but balance the books
ES: Garabatea, pero haz balance
EN: - But balance the books.
ES: - Pero balancea los libros
ES: - Pero balancea los libros
EN: We both liked Archie, Mrs. Fletcher, and I'm gonna balance the books.
ES: A ambos nos simpatizaba Archie. Y voy a ajustar cuentas.
EN: We are trying an individual who just to balance the books, should be shot three times.
ES: Estamos tratando con una persona que sólo para equilibrar las cuentas, y que debería ser fusilado tres veces.
EN: Gotta balance the books, huh?
ES: No lo olviden. Hay que balancear los libros.
EN: It'll be all right so long as we balance the books by the end of the month.
ES: Sera bien si equilibriamos los libros al fin del mes.
EN: It's Danby's job to balance the books.
ES: El trabajo de Danby es hacer balances en los libros
EN: - I balance the books, yeah.
ES: - Cuadro los libros, sí.
EN: All the planning, the making sure... does it go away because I have a chance to rid the world of a cop-killer and balance the books?
ES: Todo el planeamiento, el asegurarse... ¿Todo se pierde porque tengo la oportunidad de librar al mundo de un asesino de policías y equilibrar las cuentas?
EN: It helped them to balance the books.
ES: Ayudaba a cerrar las cuentas.

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