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wrote the book on
wrote the book on something
Fig. to be very authoritative about something; to know enough about something to write the definitive book on it. (Always in past tense.) Ted wrote the book on unemployment. He's been looking for work in three states for two years. Do I know about misery? I wrote the book on misery!
wrote the book on
Knows nearly everything about, as in Ask Dr. Lock; he wrote the book on pediatric cardiology, or I wrote the book on job-hunting; I've been looking for two years. This expression is always put in the past tense. [Colloquial; second half of 1900s]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Richa | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali |
Alise (1) | | - | Latvian |
ViỆN | | - | Vietnamese |
Krsto | | - | Croatian |
Koppel | | - | Yiddish |
Bastet | | BAHS-tet (English) | Egyptian Mythology |