swot up

I spent all last night swotting up on French politics.

By this I don't mean spending half an hour before the interview swotting up on its history.

They're not going to like swotting up all that Polish stuff, are they?

Could you and your employees benefit from swotting up on essential business skills?

As it happens, thanks to my intense cultural swotting up recently, I've got just the thing we need right here.

I spent a few days before the prize ceremony swotting up on her work.

MacFarlane not only knows what is expected of him, but he's been swotting up.

She is on message, intelligent - and swotting up like crazy about Liverpool.

He spent most of the solitary journey frantically swotting up on weather.

It's exam season and diligent students have been busy swotting up for weeks.

I really don't think I need bother about swotting up for the exam.

She's too busy swotting up on the Middle East.

I started swotting up on techniques that cost little more than time, which convenience foods have nearly made redundant.

I try to be able to speak to each of the Trustees in his native language; I'm used to swotting up a new one quickly.

So, I trust that the 18 student teams of four that have made it through to tomorrow night's final will be swotting up tonight.

Recently she had been swotting up on Brazil's Latin American neighbours, he said.

He ventured to the States and says he enjoyed swotting up on America's past.

Any American election year means swotting up on the US Presidency.

She had spent most of the morning swotting up on datawork for the meeting, and that was with nodes augmenting her brain.

Jeffrey, who trained as an industrial designer, wanted to create an interior to complement the architecture, so began swotting up on the classics.

Teachers spend their breaks preparing lesson plans, and their evenings swotting up on jargon.

LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available.

For many reasons, no great favourite... despite Dorothy's swotting up of bell-ringing and the two good maps.

I don’t wish I was around back then and I’m not obsessed with the period, swotting up on it and stuff.

So I have been gradually swotting up and becoming all the more fascinated by them as a creative force and as four individuals.