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English
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Adjective
[edit]up on (not generally comparable, comparative more up on, superlative most up on)
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Well-informed concerning.
- The tour guide was certainly up on his history.
- 1986, Aliens:
- Maybe you aren't up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, pal
- 2001 June 24, Christopher John Farley, “The New Video Wizards”, in Time:
- Says Sigismondi: "I don't watch [MTV]. I'm really not up on what's trendy."
- 2011 August 25, William Grimes, “Casey Ribicoff, Senator’s Widow and a Style Leader, Dies at 88”, in New York Times, retrieved 3 January 2012:
- “She was up on everything,” said the biographer A. Scott Berg. “Not just the news but every play or film or book.”