in my book informal

He is not given a first name in the book.

Her husband was first seen in the third book of the series.

He doesn't actually tell his own life story in the book.

She had to have heard every line in the book, by now.

He had to use every line in the book to talk his way past Security.

Some patients have been through every drug in the book.

He was trying to keep his place in the book.

They do not have a line in the whole book.

But what we get in the book is the same old story.

Her eyes went to the words in the open book.