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to close the books
[close] {one's} booksto close the books
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прекратите торговлю
to no longer make new entries when an accounting period is at its end
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Idiom
Примеры
By the time they realized they needed to close the books, it was already too late.
The accounting team worked long hours to close the books for the year and meet the deadline.
to close the book on something
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положить чему-то конец, особенно трудной или неприятной ситуации
to put an end to something, particularly something bad, that has been going on for some time
Idiom
InformalПримеры
Detectives had closed the book on the Hornsey Murders case three years previously.
I think it's time for me to close the books on this situation because I'm clearly never getting my money back.
