phrasal verb/idiom · neutral
brush up on
UK/brʌʃ ʌp ɒn/US/brʌʃ ʌp ɑn/brush·UP·on
speakingtask2
to review or practise something so that you remember it better
Examples
“I need to brush up on my French before the interview.”
“She brushed up on her programming skills over the summer.”
“A short course helped him brush up on grammar quickly.”
Band 8 sentence
“Before returning to work, she brushed up on her industry knowledge to feel confident in meetings.”
Collocations
- brush up on skills
- brush up on grammar
Word family
brush up on phrasal verbbrush-up noun
Common mistakes
brush up something→brush up on something
brush up the grammar→brush up on grammar
Say it for a higher band
5revise→6refresh knowledge→7+brush up on
Synonyms
revise
refresh one's memory
Easily confused
bone up on
“He boned up on statistics before the presentation.”
cram for
“She crammed for the test the whole night.”
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