read up
to become well informed (about) by reading
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read up
Note: Rhymes with "red" rather than "reed."
Pennsylvania Dutch expression meaning to get a place ready for company.
Pennsylvania Dutch expression meaning to get a place ready for company.
read up by Lorenzo367 February 4, 2010
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read up on it
What you may literally hafta do if you wanna learn Chinese --- some of their text is arranged in a vertical column that hasta be scanned from the bottom to the top in order to decipher it. Makes ya wonder how the Chinese don't get sore necks from all dat bobble-headed noddin' they do whenever they sit down to read da mornin' paper.
Learning how to make sense of all that fancy vertical signage in Chinatown is fairly simple --- just read up on it.
read up on it by QuacksO May 9, 2018
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