4 Metaphors for tallies

Now if there were no doubt about the reading of this name on the tablet, and if his date and dynasty were as plainly there recorded, and if all this tallies exactly with equally precise particulars in Manetho's list, it would indeed be a remarkable coincidence and would imply some common source, whether record or fact.

Tally is the operation of hauling aft the sheets, or drawing them in the direction of the ship's stern.

Ebbery body war werry sorry for a poor woman from a Jarseys!" "Thy tally is false, Master Cupid," promptly rejoined the Alderman, who was rather expert at figures.

In this respect, the name tallies with the superstitious legend of this being the fish out of whose mouth the apostle took the tribute money.

4 Metaphors for  tallies