book someone in—
1. (also: sign someone in) record the entrance of an employee, the name of a guest on arrival at a hotel, etc.:
- I’ll just book you in and then you can have a rest.
2. make an entry of a person’s name, etc. in a police register following detention:
- If you are taken into police custody, you will be booked in by the duty police officer.
Note: The expression is not equivalent in meaning to the phrase book someone—(Police) charge a person with a legal offence:
- He was booked for speeding and driving without a licence.
bring someone to book—call smb. to account; make a person responsible for doing smth. wrong:
- They must have had powerful supporters, for little attempt seems to have been made to bring them to book.