take a page from someone's book

take a page from someone's book
take a leaf out of someone's book & take a page from someone's book
Fig. to behave or to do something in a way that someone else would. •

When you act like that, you're taking a leaf out of your sister's book, and I don't like it!

You had better do it your way. Don't take a leaf out of my book. I don't do it well.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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