Slang definitions & phrases for read someone like a book
read someone like a book
verb phrase
To know and understand someone thoroughly, including deep motives and likely actions: She thinks she's pretty clever, but I read her like a book(1844+)
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D. Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers. Cite This Source