Every Saturday I’ll give you a couple of idioms to learn. An idiom is a saying or phrase whose meaning cannot be taken from the literal meanings of the words.
carry over: transfer financial data (like a profit or a loss) from one accounting period to the next
Example:
Your yearly expense account is $400, but you can carry the cost of that tablet over to next year’s expense.
fair play: playing by the rules, acting ethically
Example:
I heard that that company doesn’t engage in fair play – they only award contracts to businesses that make contributions to the boss’s favorite charity.