Throw the book at someone, book a hotel, closed book
Is a BOOK just something to read?
The English word book is used in many situations with a number of meanings.
Here are a few examples:
a closed book
– a subject about which one knows little
- – Philosophy is a closed book for me, so don’t ask me questions about it
take a leaf out of someone’s book
– behave as someone else has done, or would probably do
- – You should take a leaf out of your grandfather’s book, he always saved 10% of his salary for unforeseen events.
Throw the book at someone
– The police or judge make all the possible charges against someone
- – The police threw the book at the driver who went through the redlights causing the death of two pedestrians
book (v)
1 reserve, arrange in advance
- – We booked our hotel for the conference 6 months before
2 make charges against
- – The police booked the man for speeding
- – The footballer was booked, with a yellow card, for protesting.
There are also lessons with idioms using LOVE as well as many other lessons and exercises with phrasal verbs and English Idioms One example is Cry which is used in a number of well-known English expressions such as crybaby, cry wolf and a far cry There are more lessons with other verbs in the Phrasal Verb Index it includes run and think. If you want, you can practise by doing these exercises