take a page out of (someone'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.
See also: book, of, out, page, take

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Amara-Western African, Igbo
Mi-Sukmee-sookKorean
Adolfoah-DHOL-fo (Spanish)Italian, Spanish
Antonij-Macedonian
Ivana-Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
GwenGWENWelsh, English