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bone up
verb
- informal.adverb; when intr, usually foll by on to study intensively
Idioms and Phrases
Study intensely, as in I'll have to bone up on my Spanish if I'm to pass the language requirement . The verb bone alone was used in this sense from the mid-1800s on, up being added later. [ Slang ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
How did so many bones up and vanish?
It doesn’t require boning up, unlike a complex ballot proposition.
That means he’s had 37 years — half his life — to bone up on the issues.
Per the film, this is a natural consequence of not boning up on your “Emily Post.â€
Della Donna started boning up on criminal law, talking to every criminal attorney she could find and eventually turning to UCI Law School.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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