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.
See also: book, page, take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
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.
See also: book, page, take
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (someone) is not going to thank you for (something)
- get going with
- go (out) with (someone)
- go out with
- go with
- Everything’s going to be okay
- everything's going to be OK
- chubbo
- go for (something)
- go for it