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books noun 1 used as a figurative description of membership in a criminal organisation US, 1964. 2 employment documents that are returned to a dismissed worker UK: SCOTLAND, 1988.► do booksto steal or forge official benefit books, such as child benefit UK, 1996.► in someone's bad booksin disfavour UK, 1861.► in someone's good booksin favour UK, 1839
idiombooks► a turn-up for the book/bookscook the books(also fiddle the books BrE)to dishonestly change financial records and figures in order to steal money, or change official records in order to make an organization seem more successful than it is:The hospitals were cooking the books by recording simple enquiries as if they were full consultations.He'd been quietly fiddling the books for years, and the firm had lost thousands of pounds.hit/crack the books AmEAmEto study very hard:If you want a scholarship to college, you'd better start hitting the books now.Judge Alderson is offering a choice to first-time offenders who cannot read - crack the books or go to jail.be/get in sb's good booksif you are in someone's good books, you have done things that please them, especially when it is someone who is not easy to please:I thought if I could get us a table at a really good restaurant I'd be in her good books for once.I started attending every meeting, hoping to get back into Jeff's good books.opposite be in sb's bad books: Gray's are in our bad books at the moment, because they lost us a really important order.be one for the books AmEAmEspoken used in order to say that something is unusual and surprising:Williams' first-inning home run is his 34th this year - that's one for the books."That'd be one for the books if I quit my job at this point of my life," he said.BrE = a turn-up for the book/books
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See:- a closed book
- a turn-up for the book
- a turn-up for the book(s)
- a turn-up for the books
- an open book
- an open book, he/she is (like an)
- balance the books
- bankbook
- be a closed book
- be an open book
- be brought to book
- be in (one's) black books
- be in (one's) good books
- be in (someone's) bad books
- be in someone's black books
- be in/get into somebody's good/bad books
- bell, book, and candle
- bell, book, and candle things that are miraculous or that signal that
- black book
- black book, (put) in one's
- blot (one's) copy book
- blue book
- book (on) out
- book (one) on (something)
- book (one) through
- book in
- book on
- book on out
- book out
- book through
- book up
- bring (one) to book
- bring somebody to book
- bring someone to book
- bring to book
- by the book
- close the book on
- close the book on something
- close the book(s) on (someone or something)
- close the books
- close the books on
- closed book, a
- coffee table book
- coffee-table book
- cook the accounts
- cook the books
- crack a book
- cuddle up with a (good) book
- cuddle up with a book
- dirty joke
- do (something) by the book
- do something by the book
- don't judge a book by its cover
- double booked
- every trick in the book
- get in (someone's) good books
- get into (someone's) bad books
- Good Book
- good books
- have (one's) nose in a book
- have (one's) nose in a magazine
- have more chins than a Chinese phone book
- have name inscribed in the book of life
- have nose in a book
- have your nose in a book, magazine, etc.
- hit the books
- in (one's) book
- in (one's) good books
- in (someone's) bad books
- in (someone's) black books
- in book
- in my book
- in one's book
- in somebody's book
- in someone's bad books
- in someone's bad graces
- in someone's good books
- in someone's good graces
- in your book
- judge a book by its cover, one can't
- know (someone or something) like a book
- know every trick in the book
- know like a book
- know like a book, to
- know like the palm of hand
- like a book
- little black book
- make a book
- make book
- make book on
- make book on something
- nose in a book, have one's
- Not in my book
- not judge a book by its cover
- off the books
- on record
- on the books
- on/off the/somebody's books
- one for the (record) book(s)
- one for the (record) books
- one for the book
- one for the books
- open book
- open secret, an
- pound the books
- read (one) like a book
- read from the same hymn book
- read like a book
- read somebody like a book
- read someone like a book
- read someone like an open book, to
- rewrite the history books
- rewrite the record books
- salt the books
- sing from the same hymn book
- sing from the same hymnbook
- sing from the same songbook
- sing off the same hymnbook
- sing off the same songbook
- suit (one's) book
- suit someone's book
- suit your/somebody's book
- take a leaf from (someone's) book
- take a leaf out of (one's) book
- take a leaf out of book
- take a leaf out of somebody's book
- take a leaf out of someone's book
- take a leaf out of someone's book, to
- take a page from (someone's) book
- take a page from someone’s book
- take a page out of (someone's) book
- that's a turn-up for the book(s)
- that's one for the (record) book(s)
- the Good Book
- the history books
- the oldest trick in the book
- there's a turn-up for the book(s)
- there's one for (record) the book(s)
- throw the book at
- throw the book at (one)
- throw the book at somebody
- throw the book at someone
- throw the book at, to
- try every trick in the book
- try, use, etc. every trick in the book
- use every trick in the book
- wish book
- write the book on
- wrote the book on
- wrote the book on (something)
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't tell a book by its cover
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