bring up to date
bring (someone or something) up to date
To share or incorporate the most current information about someone or something. Bring me up to date on these candidates for the job. This schedule doesn't include the latest changes—can you bring it up to date?
See also: bring, date, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
bring up to date
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]
See also: bring, date, up
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- bring (someone or something) up to date
- bring up-to-date
- incorporate
- incorporate (someone or something) in(to) (something)
- incorporate in
- follow up on (something)
- figure in
- figure in(to) (something)
- figured
- factor in