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book it

[ book it ]

idiom

Slang.
  1. to move quickly; hurry:

    We had to book it to the other terminal to make our flight, which we barely did.

  2. to flee at top speed, as to avoid being discovered or caught by someone:

    The cops are coming—book it!



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As Slate’s Tony Ho Tran wrote eloquently in a piece about Green’s new book: “It’s a decision to let people die.”

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Green notes in the book, it would take $25 billion dollars on comprehensive care a year to “drive tuberculosis toward elimination.”

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And yet Prof Macmillan ripped it out of the book it was stored in and pocketed it.

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His new book, “It Seemed Like a Bad Idea at the Time,” details his involvement in some of the most gloriously awful moments in the history of entertainment.

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But it cannot duck the reality that, for as much as everyone involved might insist this case has been handled by the book, it has left some people feeling very uneasy.

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