English / idiom
Cooked the Books
MEANING IN ENGLISH
Falsified or manipulated financial records dishonestly to conceal wrongdoing or steal money.
In context
01
The housing society treasurer cooked the books and embezzled the maintenance funds.
02
When the auditors arrived, they discovered that the committee had cooked the books for years.
Synonyms
falsified the accounts,manipulated figures,doctored the records
Antonyms
kept transparent records,balanced accounts honestly
Collocations
cooked the books systematically,suspected of having cooked the books,deliberately cooked the books