off-the-books
书外话,账外账,书外书,帐外帐
Definitions
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- : not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
Examples
In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.
We do see that a few European countries have them on the books: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ireland, a couple more.
Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.
Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.
Peter Elmsly, a partner of the celebrated Paul Valliant, and himself an importer of books and no mean critic and linguist, died.
People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!