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Meanings of opening a book in English

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Usage of opening a book in English
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It's like opening a book written in a language you don't understand.
The Philanderers
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Paddy Power will be opening a book on this later today.
The Irish Times
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In a few countries, children play computer games before ever opening a book.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
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Just listen to this, opening a book that lay near her.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886.
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Patrons can speed through self-checkout without any assistance or ever even opening a book.
Wired
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He took the prize in Latin poetry absolutely "without opening a book."
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
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You're not opening a book, you're unwrapping a gift.
The Irish Times
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It was like opening a book, and seeing picture after picture as she turned the pages.
The Gate of the Giant Scissors
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Wilma merely threw back a lid, as though she were opening a book, and began to talk.
Armageddon 2419 A. D.
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Fritz threw off his dressing-gown, pulled on his military coat and sat down at a table, opening a book.
Historic Boyhoods
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But it was like opening a book in the middle or stepping into an interactive an hour after it began.
The dog said bow-wow
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His acquiescence in idleness, his perfect readiness to spend whole days without even opening a book, proved the seriousness of his condition.
We Two: A Novel
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So it is that opening a book by her can feel like drawing up a chair next to her at a bar.
The Guardian
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He moved to Hadley MA with his wife, and before long he was into books full time, opening a book shop in Hadley.
The new yorker
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Ladbrokes are the first of the big bookmaking firms brave enough to test the water by opening a book on Saturday's Pertemps St Leger.
The Irish Times
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Among the more effective immunological devices is a dire warning to avoid even opening a book like this, which is surely a work of Satan.
The god delusion
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