on someone's books
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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Alternative form of on the books.
- 2018, “Deuteronomy 24”, in Eugene H. Peterson, transl., The Message Deluxe Gift Bible[1], Tyndale House Publishers, →ISBN, page 196:
- Don’t abuse a laborer who is destitute and needy, whether he is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner living in your land and in your city. Pay him at the end of each workday; he’s living from hand to mouth and needs it now. If you hold back his pay, he’ll protest to GOD and you’ll have sin on your books.
- 2021 January 22, Joe Brennan, “Has Eddie O’Connor underestimated the value of his €1bn baby?”, in The Irish Times[2]:
- This forced the company to focus on developing advanced projects on its books. And fast. All too often, it ended up selling out at an early stage just to get money in to keep the show on the road.