By the book
Regular and by the book are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Regular" instead an adjective phrase "By the book".
Regular
Regular adjective - Appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time.
By the book and regular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "By the book" instead an adjective "Regular".
Both terms in one sentence
- Her regular 616 Marvel universe counterpart was a by the book cop who had a soft spot for Spider-Man, and whose death was a tragedy.
Source: Treacherous Advisor - Christopher Priest's The Inverted World takes place in an universe where planets and stars are shaped like hyperboloids of rotation while at the same time being the regular old universe and the regular old planet Earth for other people unaffected by the book's Applied Phlebotinum.
Source: World Shapes
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