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take a page from (someone's) book
To do something in the way someone else would do it; to behave or act like someone else. I think I'm going to take a page from your book and start going for a run first thing in the morning. Our youngest son was always very placid as a baby, but now that he's getting older, he's begun taking a page from our older boy's book.
take a page out of (someone's) book
To do something in the way someone else would do it; to behave or act like someone else. I think I'm going to take a page out of your book and start going for a run first thing in the morning. Our youngest son was always very placid as a baby, but now that he's getting older, he's begun taking a page out of our older boy's book.
read from the same page
and sing from the same hymnbookCliché share the same understanding of something. Okay, I think we are reading from the same page now. We can discuss the future of this project more productively.
take a leaf out of someone's book
and take a page from someone's bookFig. to behave or to do something in a way that someone else would. When you act like that, you're taking a leaf out of your sister's book, and I don't like it! You had better do it your way. Don't take a leaf out of my book. I don't do it well.
take a leaf out of somebody's book
to copy something that someone else has done I should take a leaf out of Robert's book and start coming in at ten every morning – maybe then the boss will notice me!
on the same page
thinking in a similar way
Louisa said she called the meeting to make sure everybody's on the same page. Usage notes: usually said about efforts made to solve a problem
turn the page
to stop thinking about or dealing with something When a patient dies, a doctor just has to turn the page and concentrate on the next patient.
Related vocabulary: turn over a new leaftake a leaf out of somebody's book
to copy something that someone else does because it will bring you advantages Maybe I should take a leaf out of Robert's book and start coming in at ten every morning.
See shake like a leafturn the page
to begin to behave in a more positive way after a period of difficulties It's time to put this tragedy to rest and turn the page to a new and happier chapter of our lives.
page through
v. To go through some reading material quickly or superficially, turning from page to page, as in searching or browsing: I paged through the magazine to see if there were any interesting articles in it. You'll find some interesting things on that website if you page through it for a while.
on the same page
mod. have the same understanding or amount of knowledge. (As if people were reading from the same page.) We’re not on the same page. Listen carefully to what I am telling you.
See you in the funny pages
and SYITFP sent. & comp. abb. I will see you around. (see also
See you in church.)
Bye, Tom. SYITFP. take a page from someone’s book
tv. to copy or emulate. I took a page from Edison’s book and began inventing useful little things.