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View definitions for know like a book

know like a book

verb as in know by heart

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It attaches to the device magnetically, which is cool, but it inexplicably flips over the top, not from right to left — you know, like a book does.

American women may talk too much, but at any rate they are the sort American men know like a book, and our knights have no use for inanimate beauties a good many years younger than my Lady Victoria.

But when one's on ground that you know like a book an' was brought up on,—when it's in the daylight, right by a pasture you've been acrost always an' where you've walked the ties,—well, I s'pose it's the same feelin' as when a man you know cuts up a state's prison caper; seem's like he can't of, because you knew him.

It must seem extraordinarily odd to walk about among things you are supposed to know like a book, and to be, in fact, a perfect stranger.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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