idiom · neutral
bone up on
UK/bəʊn ʌp ɒn/US/boʊn ʌp ɑn/bone·UP·on
to study hard or learn a lot about something quickly, usually to prepare
Examples
“He boned up on company law before the meeting.”
“I need to bone up on my statistics for the research project.”
“They boned up on the vocabulary list the night before the test.”
Band 8 sentence
“I boned up on microeconomics just before the viva so I could answer questions confidently.”
Collocations
- bone up on a topic
- bone up before
Word family
Common mistakes
bone up the topic→bone up on the topic
bone up = memorize→bone up = ôn kĩ/chuẩn bị kỹ, không chỉ học thuộc lòng
Say it for a higher band
5revise quickly→6study hard briefly→7+bone up on
Synonyms
brush up on
Easily confused
brush up on
“She brushed up on her math skills over the summer.”
cram for
“They crammed for the exam the whole week.”
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