accountant's lamp

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accountant's lamp (plural accountant's lamps or accountants' lamps)

  1. Synonym of banker's lamp
    • 2003, Jodi Picoult, Second Glance, Atria Books export edition, Atria Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 237:
      Spencer has left the door to his study open. I turn on the green accountant's lamp. A thousand times I have come into this room, but never with the intent of finding something.
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