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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