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Cast up one's accounts

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon.

    "He was very careful to cast up his accounts every quarter ; which he did, that he might spend neither more nor less than what he could spend every year."

  2. 2
    To vomit. archaic, idiomatic

    "To cast up one's accounts upon excessive drinking ; either, says Cotgrave, because in spewing one makes a noise like a fox that barks, or (from the subject to the effect) because the flaying of so unsavoury a beast will make any one spew."

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