1
general::
Phrase(s): tally with something
1. Lit. [for one set of figures] to match another set of figures. • Your figures don’t tally with mine. Let’s add them up again. • The total Sam got didn’t tally with what the tax agent had come up with. 2. Fig. [for one thing] to agree or correlate with another. • What you just said doesn’t tally with what you told me before. • His story doesn’t tally with what I already know.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs