Idiom
paper trail
Meaning
A written record, history, or collection of evidence.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Keep every receipt to create a paper trail for your expenses.”
“The auditor requested all emails and invoices to establish a clear paper trail of the company's financial decisions.”
“By meticulously documenting every transaction and correspondence, the investigator successfully constructed a damning paper trail that exposed the long-running scheme.”
Examples
simple
“Keep every receipt to create a paper trail for your expenses.”
contextual
“The auditor requested all emails and invoices to establish a clear paper trail of the company's financial decisions.”
complex
“By meticulously documenting every transaction and correspondence, the investigator successfully constructed a damning paper trail that exposed the long-running scheme.”
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