square accounts

1. To pay or receive money owed. The phrase can be used by the debtor or the creditor. I need to square accounts with Dean now, before I end up owing him even more money! Thanks for squaring accounts with me, I really needed the money this month.

2. To avenge a misdeed. Typically followed by "with (someone)." Now that she thinks I started that rumor about her, I'm worried about how she is going to try to square accounts with me. Oh, I'll use my fists to square accounts with him after school!

square accounts

(with someone)

1. Lit. to settle one's financial accounts with someone. I have to square accounts with the bank this week, or it'll take back my car. I called the bank and said I needed to come in and square accounts.

2. Fig. to get even with someone; to straighten out a misunderstanding with someone. I'm going to square accounts with Tom. He insulted me in public, and he owes mean apology. Tom, you and I are going to have to square accounts.

See also: account, square

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

See also:

settle accounts
settle accounts with someone
settle an account
how about
how/what about...?
eggs is eggs
How long is a piece of string?
from my cold, dead hands
(one's) best foot forward
best foot forward

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Park Avenue South/Madison Square accounts for nearly one third of that total, with 1.07 million SF leased.

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Other information showed they were out to square accounts with the Shankill Butchers, a loyalist gang of the mid-1970s, who slaughtered Catholics during parole or temporary release from jail.

JUDGES ON HIT LIST

Finding little hope for a rapprochement with the opposition the Government has finally decided to square accounts with the rivals.

Gang warfare in Karachi

"It was always known that "Wake up" would carry out the orders of BDI's leadership and therefore the time has come to square accounts," stated Ademi.

Nongovernmental organization in politics?

词组	square accounts
释义	square accounts square accounts 1. To pay or receive money owed. The phrase can be used by the debtor or the creditor. I need to square accounts with Dean now, before I end up owing him even more money! Thanks for squaring accounts with me, I really needed the money this month. 2. To avenge a misdeed. Typically followed by "with (someone)." Now that she thinks I started that rumor about her, I'm worried about how she is going to try to square accounts with me. Oh, I'll use my fists to square accounts with him after school! See also: account, square Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. square accounts (with someone) 1. Lit. to settle one's financial accounts with someone. I have to square accounts with the bank this week, or it'll take back my car. I called the bank and said I needed to come in and square accounts. 2. Fig. to get even with someone; to straighten out a misunderstanding with someone. I'm going to square accounts with Tom. He insulted me in public, and he owes mean apology. Tom, you and I are going to have to square accounts. See also: account, square McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: settle accounts settle accounts with someone settle an account how about how/what about...? eggs is eggs How long is a piece of string? from my cold, dead hands (one's) best foot forward best foot forward References in periodicals archive Park Avenue South/Madison Square accounts for nearly one third of that total, with 1.07 million SF leased. Sublease space continued to return to market in November Other information showed they were out to square accounts with the Shankill Butchers, a loyalist gang of the mid-1970s, who slaughtered Catholics during parole or temporary release from jail. JUDGES ON HIT LIST Finding little hope for a rapprochement with the opposition the Government has finally decided to square accounts with the rivals. Gang warfare in Karachi "It was always known that "Wake up" would carry out the orders of BDI's leadership and therefore the time has come to square accounts," stated Ademi. Nongovernmental organization in politics?
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