take a leaf out of someone's book

Verb

take a leaf out of someone's book (third-person singular simple present takes a leaf out of someone's book, present participle taking a leaf out of someone's book, simple past took a leaf out of someone's book, past participle taken a leaf out of someone's book)

1. (idiomatic) To adopt an idea or practice of another person.
   • Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.1927, M[ohandas] K[aramchand] Gandhi, chapter XVI, in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Translated from the Original in Gujarati, volume I, Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan...

   Synonyms:

   borrow a leaf out of someone's book, borrow a page from someone's book, rip a page out of someone's book, rip a page out of someone's playbook, take a page from someone's book, take a page out of someone's book, take a page out of someone's playbook