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"He literally wrote the book on the art of deal making."

And as political historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat, who literally wrote the book on despots and authoritarianism, has long cautioned, fanning a sense of despondence is a tool authoritarians deploy to advance their agenda: “The ceaseless lying and corruption and the cynical disregard for human life that marks strongman rule can lead to despair.”

And while VP choices aren’t generally thought to have large effects on election outcomes, the professors who literally wrote the book on whether running mates matter—it was called Do Running Mates Matter?—once included the following caveat in a summary of their research:

“If you’re doing everything at 7,000 feet, you have to go at a slower pace just because you’re at altitude,” said Baxter, who literally wrote the book on running in Flagstaff with “Running Up the Mountain: Northern Arizona Altitude, Lumberjack Attitude and the Building of a Distance Dynasty,” a detailed, quirky and entertaining look at people who made the sport flower in the desert.

Definitions and explanations vary, of course; Danny Peary, who literally wrote the book on the subject, defined them as “special films which for one reason or another have been taken to heart by segments of the movie audience, cherished, protected, and most of all, enthusiastically championed.”