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bone up
verb as in review something intensely
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How did so many bones up and vanish?
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It doesn’t require boning up, unlike a complex ballot proposition.
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That means he’s had 37 years — half his life — to bone up on the issues.
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Per the film, this is a natural consequence of not boning up on your “Emily Post.”
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Della Donna started boning up on criminal law, talking to every criminal attorney she could find and eventually turning to UCI Law School.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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