You are a toast if you don't cook your books ... "
Alan Greenspan
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toast
Definition of toast
1 a : sliced bread browned on both sides by heat
b : food prepared with toasted bread
2 [3toast]
: an act of proposing or of drinking in honor of a toast
3 slang : one that is finished or done for ·soon their relationship was toast
—Rick Reilly
4 : a rhyming narrative poem existing in oral tradition among black Americans
5 [from the use of pieces of spiced toast to flavor drinks]
a (1) : a person whose health is drunk (2) : something in honor of which persons usually drink
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cook
transitive) (slang) to alter or falsify (something, esp figures, accounts, etc): to cook the books. 4. (transitive) (slang) to spoil or ruin (something) 5. (intransitive) (slang) to happen (esp in the phrase what's cooking?)