balance the books

Definitions

1. 1

   To add up all the debits and credits.

2. 2

   To put or keep any closed or conservative system or its analysis in balance.

   • Let us not balance the books of oppression of the deaf on the backs and minds of other oppressed linguistic ethnic and cultural minorities.
   • 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 to balance the books.
   • When you broke one of his rules, you had to sacrifice something to earn forgiveness or to balance the books.

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