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- take a page from (someone's) book
take a page from (someone's) book
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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Davenport | | ['dævənpɔ:t] | |
Soner | | - | Turkish |
Giada | | JAH-dah | Italian |
Suk-Ja | | sook-jah | Korean |
Isidor | | EE-see-dawr (German) | German, Russian, Macedonian |
Law | | - | Medieval English |