English

for the book

Notable, remarkable or surprising.

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    Origin

    Some uses reflect the metaphor from turn up for the book, which involves a bookie's book. Other uses reflect the metaphor of the record book (or record books), such that one for the book and its variant one for the books are elliptically synonymous with one for the record book or one for the record books.

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    • derivedEnglishturn “To move about an axis through itself.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishturnen
        • inheritedOld Englishturnian
        • borrowedOld Frenchtorner
      • derivedLatintornus
        • borrowedAncient Greekτόρνος
        • derivedAncient Greekτόρνος

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