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add up

To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
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His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?

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Submitted on August 09, 2009

Additional definitions for 'add up':

add upTo take a sum.
add upTo accumulate; to amount to.
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