bring up to date

Idioms  

1. 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]

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bring up to date

The 2019 Conservative party manifesto promised to bring up to date "analogue laws" for the digital age.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2022

The Paycheck Fairness Act would bring up to date the Equal Pay Act, which was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson nearly 50 years ago.

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2012

"The goal is to bring up to date the mechanism of tax collection, better serve citizens and establish a transparent and fair tax framework," it said.

From Reuters ● May 25, 2010

If James Aloysius Farley in the New Deal's turbulent heyday had attempted to bring up to date the philosophy of John Locke, the U.S. would have a better precedent for understanding Chen Li-fu.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Watch-tower I sat one April in Provence on a small hill above an ancient town that Goth and Vandal as yet have forborne to "bring up to date."

From Tales of Wonder by Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron Dunsany

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