To throw the book at sb → castigar severamente a algn To suit sb's book it suits his book to play the easy-going liberal → le viene bien hacerse el liberal poco exigente, se hace el liberal poco exigente porque le conviene To read sb like a book I know where he's off to - I can read him like a book → sé dónde va, a mí no me engaña I was trying to get back in her good books → estaba intentando volver a congraciarme con ella To be in sb's good/bad books I'm in his bad books at the moment → en este momento estoy en su lista negra Those who planned the murder were never brought to book → nunca se les pidió cuentas a los que planearon el asesinato To bring sb to book → pedir cuentas a algn His mind is an open book → su mente es un libro abierto That's one for the book → eso es digno de mención In my book ( fig) → tal como yo lo veo, a mi modo de verĪ book on politics → un libro de política
The book of Genesis → el libro del Génesis To play it or to go by the book → seguir las reglasĮconomics/her life is a closed book to me → la economía/su vida es un misterio para mí "Even bad books are books and therefore sacred" Books
"Books are where things are explained to you life is where things aren't" "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened" "The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries" "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" "You can cut, or you can drug, with words" "Style and Structure are the essence of a book great ideas are hogwash" Books are well written, or badly written" "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time" "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life" Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms.
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