Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Lesson 228--Taking a Page from Someone's Playbook


 


This expression is used to indicate you are copying someone's behaviour or strategy.  It is a very useful idiom, and not too complicated.

examples

Taking a page from his sister's playbook, he told his mother and father two different stories about where he was going that night.

Taking a page from father's playbook, Maurice went to sleep before his wife could yell at him for being drunk.

Matthew took a page from his brother's playbook when he wanted to borrow the family car.  It worked exactly as it did for his brother.

Jennifer decided to take a page from her best friend's playbook when she wanted a new dress.  She started crying before she asked for the money to buy the dress.

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