In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The accounts clerk was jailed because he cooked the books
The idiom “cooked the books” means to falsify financial records, usually to hide fraud or gain personal benefit. So the sentence means: The accounts clerk was jailed because he falsified the accounts to his advantage.
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