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Monday, 12 March 2018

Language Snippets - Idioms with 'book'


Examples:
I'm afraid physics will always be a closed book to me.
I'd always thought of Jeff as an open book.
You won't be a very successful thief with that nervous demeanour—the cops will read you like a book.
 Selling tourists fake artifacts is the oldest trick in the book—please don't fall for that one.
I’ll ask my boss for the day off – I’m in her good books just now.
The police were careful to do everything by the book.
They are committing $3m to research. We could take a leaf out of their book.
 He seems very quiet, but you can't judge a book by its cover.
My partner had been cooking the books for years, but because I was the CEO, I got the blame for our company's collapse.

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