go by the book
Example Sentences
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Realistically, not much at the moment, apart from the officer’s willingness to go by the book.
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2021
Kind of cool," to Hal Duncan's, "I see myself as a maverick grammar cop who doesn't go by the book.
From The Guardian • Jun. 12, 2013
After two years of the predictable life of lectures, textbooks, and exams, the students are plunged into the world of actual clinical medicine, where patients and their illnesses rarely go by the book.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2013
He’s an aggressive manager, a manager who doesn’t go by the book.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2011
Yevdokia Bershanskaya didn’t always go by the book as the commander of the 46th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, but she was good at her job.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
