" reading up on "

 [ "read up" ]

1: to become well informed (about) by reading

  * e.g.,  ... you need to read up on your Bartlett's 

 [ "read up" ]

1: Note: Rhymes with "red" rather than "reed."

  * e.g.,  ... We need to read up the place before your sister comes over. 

 [ "read up" ]

2: Pennsylvania Dutch expression meaning to get a place ready for company.

 [ "Deleted every girl who’s ass I didn’t want to eat rope nerds out of So if you’re reading this what’s up" ]

1: Very picky about women

  * e.g.,  ... Typical George Costanza: Deleted every girl who’s ass I didn’t want to eat rope nerds out of So if you’re reading this what’s up 

 [ "read up on it" ]

1: What you may literally hafta do if you wanna learn Chinese --- some of their text is arranged in a vertical column that hasta be scanned from the bottom to the top in order to decipher it. Makes ya wonder how the Chinese don't get sore necks from all dat bobble-headed noddin' they do whenever they sit down to read da mornin' paper.

  * e.g.,  ... Learning how to make sense of all that fancy vertical signage in Chinatown is fairly simple --- just read up on it.