You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for January 18.

National Winnie the Pooh Day

Today’s word is book, spelled b-o-o-k.

book  /bʊk/ noun

take/borrow a leaf out of someone's book idiom

: to do the same thing that someone did

I decided to take/borrow a leaf out of his book and invest some money in the stock market.

They are committing $3m to research. We could take a leaf out of their book.

a closed book noun

: a person or thing that is difficult to understand

Even to his closest friends, he was always something of a closed book.

I'm afraid physics will always be a closed book to me.

read (someone) like a book idiom

: to easily understand the true thoughts and feelings of (someone) by looking at how that person acts or behaves

My mom always knows when I'm lying. She can read me like a book.

I can read you like a book - some book I've read six times already.