0 exactly as is expected or following the rules connected with a situation:
a copybook musical performance
It is a blot on our copybook of full employment; it must be considered, and it is best that it should be brought into the open.
They are certainly erasing many of the blots in their copybook.
Indeed, he said it was an immoral transaction and wondered whether any previous occupant of this great office had ever so blotted his copybook.
We have not done it half as well as the copybooks lead us to believe it can be done.
Surely, never has so neat a copybook had so black a blot placed upon it.
This is due frequently to a shortage of empties; the copybook maxim, to which reference has been made, has not apparently been carried out.
From my limited knowledge of what happened, the captain's action was copybook, and the political decision rather than the military action is at issue.
I believe it is that which has inspired all the copybook maxims of morality we have heard this afternoon.
