salt the books
salt the books
1. To falsify the information in a financial transaction, invoice, or account to make it seem more valuable. The tax auditors were shut down and the top bosses sent to jail for salting the books of dozens of clients' accounts.
2. To plant false information about something to fraudulently increase its value, potency, or desirability. After the dossier circulated the media, nearly culminating in the president's impeachment, it came to light that the senator's campaign had heavily "salted the books" with falsified accounts of witnesses who'd been paid to cooperate.
See also: book, salt
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
salt the books
fraudulently increase the apparent value of an invoice or account. informalSee also: book, salt
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- cook the books
- cook the accounts
- a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- come out in the wash, it will
- it all comes out in the wash
- it will all come out in the wash
- it'll all come out in the wash
- bill (one) for (something)
- bill for