English Explanatory Dictionary

for the book

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Notable, remarkable or surprising.

Word forms

for the book for the books

Etymology

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.

Related words

for the ages
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