paper match

noun

1. book match.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paper match¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

Here’s your Big Paper match report: Related: Ashley Williams sinks Watford to lift Swansea out of relegation zone Now Ashley Williams speaks!

From The Guardian

A buyer simply can’t afford to buy a company without verifying that the numbers on paper match up with reality.

From Inc

Then to see that child and the Major both wrapped up getting down to warm their feet and going stamping about and having glasses of ale out of the paper match boxes on the chimney piece, is to see the Major enjoying it fully as much as the child I am very sure, and it’s equal to any play when Coachee opens the coach door to look in at me inside and say “Wery ‘past that ’tage.—’Prightened old lady?”

From Project Gutenberg

The painstaking expense was worth it, producing an antenna that misses, by the thickness of a paper match, being a perfect parabola.

From Time Magazine Archive

When his wife was running for chairman of the News unit of the Newspaper Guild, he killed her chances by printing paper match covers boosting her candidacy, distributing them to the staff.

From Time Magazine Archive