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swot up on en · VERB
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(UK, informal) To study particularly hard to learn (a subject) quickly.
So I went to technical college for several months to swot up on navigation for the exam.
2004, Robert Carter, Windjammers, page 77:You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.
And while his fellow musicians spent their evenings smoking marijuana, Alan Greenspan busied himself by swotting up on economics and doing the band's accounts.
2026 June 22, Sam Woodhouse, “Alan Greenspan, architect of the modern American economy, dies aged 100”, in BBC News:
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bone up on