balance the books



audit, balance, book, capitalize, carry, carry over, charge off, check, check out, close out, credit, debit, demonstrate, docket, enter,

   dull-pointed - abrupt, bluff, blunt, blunted, dull, obtuse, pointless, rounded, unsharpened ,

   fall to pieces - ablate, atomize, bite the dust, break, break open, break up, burst, canker, carry away, come apart, come off, come to dust, come undone, come unstuck, consume,

   intermingling - admixture, amalgamation, blending, coalescence, combination, commingling, composition, eclecticism, fusion, integration, interlarding, merger, mingling, mixing, mixture,

   hamstring - bugger, burden, castrate, cramp, cripple, cumber, de-energize, debilitate, deflate, disable, disarm, drain, emasculate, embarrass, enchain,

   preparatory - antecedent, anterior, basic, before, chief, elementary, essential, first, foremost, fundamental, in preparation for, inaugural, inductive, initiatory, introductory,

   close the circle - circle, circuit, circulate, circumnavigate, circumvent, compass, cycle, encircle, encompass, flank, girdle, go about, go around, lap, orbit,

   fire tactics - aerial tactics, airborne tactics, applied tactics, armoured tactics, barrier tactics, cavalry tactics, defensive strategy, diversion, encirclement, feint, infantry tactics, infiltration, investment, mob tactics, mobile tactics,

   speedway - alley, alleyway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, avenue, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bypass, byway, carriageway, causeway, circumferential,

   townsman - bourgeois, burgher, citizen, city dweller, city slicker, local, suburbanite, townee, townspeople, urbanite, villager ,

   tangibility - apparentness, body, clearness, concreteness, crystal-clearness, density, distinctness, durability, evidence, firmness, manifestness, mass, materiality, obviousness, openness,