cast up one's accounts

Meaning: To come to anaccounting; to examine and strike thebalanceofdebtandcredit;reckon.2005, Benedictus de Spinoza,A Theologico-Political Treatise, and a Political Treatise,→ISBN, page xviii:He was very careful tocast up his accountsevery quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year.2007, J. C. Ryle,Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots,→ISBN, page121:If a man shouldcast up his accountsonce a week, or once a month, he may not be able to discern that he doth grow rich, and yet he may grow rich.2008, Charles Haddon Spurgeon,Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon,→ISBN, page18:EVERY WISE MERCHANT will occasionally hold a stock-taking, when he willcast up his accounts, examine what he has on hand, and ascertain decisively whether his trade is prosperous or declining.; (idiomatic,archaic)Tovomit.1854, François Rabelais, Jacob Le Duchat, John Ozell,The Works of Francis Rabelais - Volume 1, page134:Tocast up one's accountsupon excessive drinking ; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew.2004, Jo Beverley,Secrets of the Night,→ISBN:A foul taste. Vomit. 'Struth! Embarrassing memory flooded back. He'dcast up his accountsin front of a woman.2014, Heather Boyd -,Just a Dream,→ISBN:As he handed the tray over, he heard the knocker echo through the house. Thinking it might be Jimmy, he turned back to his father to warn him only to see him reach for the chamber pot andcast up his accounts.2015, Sabrina Jeffries,If the Viscount Falls,→ISBN, page20:She was about to be sick right here in front of them all. That would be the worst humiliation imaginable. Mustn'tcast up my accounts, mustn'tcast up my accounts.

Examples:

No examples available.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).