单词 | to bone up on |
释义 | > as lemmasto bone up on 4. intransitive. slang (originally U.S.). To apply oneself assiduously or determinedly to a task, esp. studying (frequently with down, away, etc.). Later also (chiefly in to bone up on): to study intensively or read up on a topic, typically in preparation for a test. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > study diligently or hard porec1387 muzz?1744 sap1830 bone1832 to study up1846 mug1848 grind1855 swot1860 stew1866 swank1890 groise1913 society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study diligently or hard to make a study ofa1591 nit1596 to sit over ——1606 to mouse over1808 to work out1830 bone1832 work1840 to work up1852 mug1868 swot1901 1832 H. L. Ellsworth Let. 17 Nov. in Washington Irving on Prairie (1937) 74 He was a poor scholar..with no disposition to bone down to study. 1841 H. Greeley in W. M. Griswold Passages Corr. R. W. Griswold (1898) 53 Webb..has been round boring every big-bug in the State to bone for him. a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 148 We was about sick of putty-heads and sneaks that..didn't dare to make us stand round and bone in. 1887 E. Custer Tenting on Plains (1889) ix. 286 I have known the General to ‘bone-up’, as his West Point phrase expressed it, on the smallest details of some question at issue. 1899 Michiganensian 3 That evening I had some hard work to do and was bohning away like sin. 1924 M. Currie Margaret Currie her Bk. 72 That old stick-in-the-mud, Smith, who spends every evening boning away at dry old books. 1949 Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Gaz. 9 Nov. 16/6 Boning hard for their ‘grudge’ game against California Saturday at Berkeley, the Oregon Ducks went through a rough scrimmage here yesterday. 1959 Punch 14 Oct. 309/1 The Wrens..boned up on Russian to be ahead for the next war. 1993 J. Dickey To White Sea 124 This was not one of those times, though, and I boned down on what choices I had and what advantages I could give myself. 2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. iii. 22 Coventry was..one of the great car-producing areas, so I should have boned up on my manufacturing-process terminology before gigging there. < as lemmas |
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