one for the books

[one for the books] {n, phr.}, {informal} Very unusual; a remarkable something.

* /The newspaper reporter fumed in a story that was one for the books./

* /Their trip through the Rocky Mountains was one for the books./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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