单词 | brought up to date |
释义 | > as lemmas(brought, written, posted) up to date (brought, written, posted) up to date: said in book-keeper's phrase of accounts, a journal, ledger, etc.; hence, figurative up to the knowledge, requirements, or standard of the time (colloquial). ΚΠ 1890 C. W. Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. I. p. vii I..tried to bring my volumes up to date. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 6/3 The two gentlemen..who invented the Gaiety burlesque ‘up to date’—and gave this detestable phrase to the language. < as lemmas |
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