![]() *Now you try: try to make ten sentences about you or people you know using the above idioms. The police threw the book at him as he’d been caught before so he has to go to court and he might even have to go to prison!’ ![]() People who do not do things by the book might have the book ‘thrown at’ them! To ‘throw the book at someone’ means to punish them in the worst, harshest way.Įxample: ‘Alex got arrested for speeding last night. To do things ‘by the book’ means to do things properly, in the correct way to follow the rules exactly.Įxample: ‘You should go with this lawyer – she always does everything by the book so you know there’ll be no problems in court.’ ‘Taking a leaf out of someone’s books’ means to act like another person.Įxample: ‘You’re so organised! I’ve decided to take a leaf out of your book and buy a diary to write everything down.’ The opposite of this is to be ‘in someone’s bad books’. I helped her out with some things around the house and now she’ll do anything for me!’ To be ‘in someone’s good books’ mean that the person is happy with you.Įxample: ‘I’m in my mother-in-law’s good books at the moment. ‘To read someone like a book’ means that you know somebody so well that you know what they are thinking or what they are going to do without being told.Įxample: ‘You don’t like her, do you? I can tell just by looking at you – I can read you like a book!’ ![]() But when we went out the other night she was so loud! I was shocked! I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover.’ Not being able to ‘judge a book by its cover’ means that you can’t guess what a person is like from their appearanc e.Įxample: ‘I thought that Sarah was really quiet – she looks like a real bookworm. To ‘hit the books’ means ‘to study’, especially to study really hard.Įxample: ‘I’ve got an exam tomorrow so I’m hitting the books this evening.’Ī ‘bookworm’ is someone who loves reading/studying.Įxample: ‘I was a bit of a bookworm when I was a kid.’Īn ‘open book’ is a person who is easy to understand, a very honest person.Įxample: ‘I have no secrets I’m an open book.’Įxample: ‘I just can’t understand him. I had lots of lovely ideas for my three year-old daughter, but she decided she wanted to dress up as… Peppa Pig!Īnyway, to celebrate this day of books I have made a list of 10 idioms that feature the word ‘book’… I hope they’re useful!įor example, ‘A man who hits a woman isn’t a man, in my book.’ Something we do in the UK to celebrate World Book Day is dress our children up as characters from their favourite book. What about you? Do you love reading in your language? I don’t know about you, but I love books! I read at least a few pages of a book every single day. On Thursday the 7th of March 2019 it is World Book Day.
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