| 单词 | to take a page out of another's playbook |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take a page out of another's playbook b. to take a page out of another's playbook and variants: to use tactics copied from another; to adopt a strategy or policy associated with the specified person or group. ΚΠ 1976 Newsweek 17 May 23/2 Gerald Ford took his bruised candidacy back on the road last week... Taking a page from Jimmy Carter's playbook, he preached the gospel of what's right with America. 1984 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 25 Dec. i. 38/1 Hayes said that the Seahawks' tactic of rushing so often..was a demonstration of the Raider's ‘muscle-mentality trait, a page out of our playbook’. The Seahawks weren't the first team tearing pages out of the Raider playbook. 1992 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 25 July a4/4 Gov. Bill Clinton, taking a page from the Republican playbook, stood on the steps..with uniformed police officers and denounced President Bush's record on fighting crime. 2003 Time 23 June 48/3 Ellison is taking a leaf from the Microsoft playbook: getting bigger, with less competition, is better. < as lemmas |
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