Hi,

Last night I was watching a TV series (Inspector Morse - UK - excellent!) and at some point in a dialog came the expression: "he was burning midnight oil", that was translated (in the subtitles) to something like "working late at night".

Later on came the expression: "cooking the books" that althougt wasn't translated I understood as manipulating the ledger of the company to false numbers.

Is that correct?

BTW there was (is) a band called "Midnight Oil", does their name have something to do with the first above?

Regards,

Fernando