square accounts
Example Sentences
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It didn't take the Wildcats long, down seven at halftime, to square accounts.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2011
There is novelty in the situation when this girl adopts a precocious brat and hef nervous brother, to square accounts, adapts Arliss as a father.
From Time Magazine Archive
The U.S. has never been patient with its pessimists, but to square accounts with a Dreiser, mere optimism is not enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angry, because they felt that T. A. T. had publicized their discharge as a sort of burnt offering to disgruntled stockholders, Vidal & Collins saw a chance to square accounts.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the evening we prepared ourselves to square accounts with Himmelstoss.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
