To cook the books

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Education, Language Learning

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2013

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Neil is cooking an unusual meal in the BBC Learning English kitchen. Would you like to eat a book?

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0:00.0	This is a feature from BBC Learning English.com.
0:03.6	For more information and our terms of use go to BBC World Service.com
0:08.8	forward slash podcasts.
0:10.7	The English We Speak
0:14.0	From the BBC.
0:19.0	Hello and welcome to the BBC Learning English Kitchen with me, Neil, and my assistant, Faye Faye.
0:26.2	Yes, welcome to the English we speak from BBC Learning English.
0:30.3	I'm very excited today because Neil has asked me to be his assistant in the BBC
0:34.8	learner English kitchen. That's right. I've started boiling the water in
0:41.9	the saucepan and now I'll prepare the ingredients.
0:45.6	Oh I'm so excited I wonder what Neil's going to cook so what are the ingredients?
0:50.9	There we go. Neil I think you're emptying your back from the library rather than the
0:59.2	supermarket. No fe fey this is. I'm going to cook the books.
1:04.6	Cook the books. Are you crazy?
1:08.0	Yes, Faye, I might look happy and full of joy, but there's something terrible I have to admit.
1:15.0	Oh no, what's that? Well, I have serious financial problems.
1:21.0	I'm millions of pounds in debt.
1:25.0	Oh no! How will cooking the books help?
1:28.0	It's an expression in English.
1:30.0	If you cook the books, you change the numbers in a company's financial records so you can take some of the money for yourself illegally.
1:40.0	Neil that's not like you. Let's hear some more examples of that phrase being used.
1:47.0	Did you hear Dave the accountant got fired for stealing from the company?
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