up to speed

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Fullyinformed;current.Is Maryup to speedon the situation in Kuala Lumpur?1977, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance,The Safe banking act of 1977: hearings before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions Supervision, Regulation, and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, on H.R. 9086, U.S. Government Printing Office,page1239:And I don't happen to recollect whether I didbring her up to speedon what Bert was asking for and so forth.2021January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, inThe New York Times‎[1]:In recent weeks, the only way to getup to speedwith WallStreetBets would have been through full immersion, absorbing comments about “tendies” and “diamond hands” and “holding the line” until you worked up the nerve to post the group’s most beloved slogan for yourself: “We like the stock.”; (idiomatic)Functioningadequately.It may take the new hires a week or two to be broughtup to speedon the system.1992February 3, Ed Scannell, “OS/2 slowed by sales force”, inInfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group,page 8:IBM has begun a program to better educate its sales force, Reiswig said, but admits it could take as long as six months tobring them up to speed.2001, Eric A. Rose,The Columbia Presbyterian Guide to Surgery‎[2], page132:It takes time after the anesthesia for the muscles to getup to speed, so your stomach and intestines may not be functioning normally yet and you won’t be able to eat.2020, Heidi Helfand,Dynamic Reteaming: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams, O'Reilly Media,→ISBN,page54:For new hires joining your teams as software engineers, pair programming is a great way tobring them up to speed. It helps them ease into your codebase with a helpful in-the-moment guide, and it helps to share tribal knowledge and the technical practices that you want to be consistent across your codebase.

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