closed the books (verb) close out: terminate business operations
Sinonime: artifice,
blind,
cheat, chicanery, crocodile tears, deception, dirty trick, dirty work,
duplicity, fake,
feint, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, hoax, humbug, imposture, misrepresentation,
pretense,
ruse, sell, sellout, sham,
shift, smoke and mirrors, snow job, soft soap, spoof,
stratagem,
subterfuge, sweet talk, swindle,
trick, whitewash, wile