cook the books | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Tomanipulateaccountinginformation, especiallyillegally.Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous forcooking the books.; (idiomatic,by extension)Tofalsifyan account of an event.2012, R.I. Iyemere,The Ordeals: Poems in Memory of Ada-Emilia Valmori,→ISBN, page146:Those thatcooked the booksand presented them with bias minds; They sugar-coated the stories; and twisted and exaggerated events2015, Seamus McGraw,Betting the Farm on a Drought,→ISBN:Two years after he received his piece of the Nobel Prize, Mann was drawn into controversy over a series of e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom that some climate change skeptics charged provided proof that Mann and his fellow scientists werecooking the bookson climate, though for what reason, the skeptics never made clear.2017, Stephen Warde Anderson,The Anderson Revisionist Bible: The Books of Moses,→ISBN, page280:One does suspect that the authors of Numberscooked the booksa bit to make the more important and respected tribes (Judah, for instance) look good with higher population numbers.

Examples:

EN: You gotta stop making Donna cook the books.
ES: Tienes que dejar de hacer que Donna falsee datos.
EN: You knew that Mattawin was using Tuxedo Hill to "cook the books. "
ES: Sabía que Mattawin usaba a Tuxedo Hill para alterar la contabilidad.
EN: I did help him cook the books, Ed.
ES: Le ayudé a "cocinar" los libros, Ed.
EN: Wiped everything out. Maybe we did cook the books a little bit.
ES: Alteramos un poco los libros.
EN: I cook the books or anything.
ES: - Claro. - Bien.
EN: So this is where you fellas cook the books.
ES: Así que aquí es donde cocinan los libros.
EN: You cheat on Uncle Sam. You cook the books until your ulcers bleed.
ES: Si engañas al tío Sam... forjarás los documentos hasta que su úlcera sangre.
EN: They'd just cook the books and hold a press conference.
ES: Maquillarían las cuentas y darían una conferencia de prensa.
EN: I cook the books. You know, set up shell companies, offshore accounts.
ES: Sólo altero los libros, ya sabes... compañías falsas abro cuentas en el extranjero.
EN: You do cook the books for the Doherty brothers?
ES: ¿Tu haces los libros de los hermanos Doherty?
EN: No longer can we cook the books and fudge the numbers.
ES: Ya no podemos alterar balances y esconder números.
EN: By buying up distilleries and creating his own drug company, Remus could become both buyer and seller and then cook the books to lose shipments in between.
ES: Al comprar destilerías y crear su propia compañía farmacéutica, Remus podría convertirse en comprador y vendedor y luego manipular las cifras para "perder" uno que otro envío.
EN: Okay, I cook the books a little, okay?
ES: De acuerdo, maquillo las cifras un poco,¿vale?
EN: Oh. Any other crunch time, I would love to stay in, cook the books for you, so you can save face in front of your ceo, but tonight is Triviocalypse!
ES: En cualquier otro tiempo límite, me encantaría quedarme, maquillar los libros por ti, para que puedas guardar las apariencias frente a tu gerente, pero esta noche es el Triviocalipsis.
EN: You mean cook the books?
ES: ¿Te refieres a cocinar los libros?

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