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Phrase(s): bring someone up-to-date (on someone or something)
to inform someone of the latest information about something. • Let me bring you up-to-date on what is happening in the village. • Please bring me up-to-date., Phrase(s): bring someone or something up-to-date
to modernize someone or something. • We brought the room up-to-date with a little paint and some modern furniture. • I can bring you up-to-date with a new hairdo.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Convey information up to the present; also, make one aware of or conform to new ideas, improvements, or styles. For example, Bring me up to date on the test results, or We've been bringing Grandma up to date with a little makeup and some new clothes. The term up to date comes from bookkeeping, where it signifies account entries to the present time. [Late 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms