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[5] Idiomatic expressions: Front-page news: important news or information. On the same page: to be in agreement with someone (literally: reading from the same page). Take a page (or leaf) out of someone's book: to copy or mimic the behavior of someone. Turn the page: to move on from an event. To stop thinking about something or to move forward.
The origins of duplicate bridge are based on the emergence of duplicate whist in the game of whist. In the introduction to his book Duplicate Whist, the author comments on the early emergence of duplicate whist: The writer has it on good authority that it was played in Berlin and Paris as far back as 1840, and later in Philadelphia and New York...