Noun
a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it
Source: WordNetLife doesn't come with an instruction manual. Scott Westerfeld
Once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual. Stephen King
A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying. Alton Brown
Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out. Hugh Laurie
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team. Bryan Adams
Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. Children, despite all their complexity, do not. Lawrence Kutner