English Dictionary

cast up one's accounts

verb

To come to an accounting; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; reckon. / (idiomatic, archaic) To vomit.

He cast up his accounts at the end of the year.

意味（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.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, archaic) To vomit.

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.