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
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (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