keep someone posted notify, brief, advise, inform, report to, keep someone informed, keep someone up to date, apprise, fill someone in on (informal), keep someone plugged-in (slang) Keep me posted on your progress.post2noun1. job, place, office, position, situation, employment, appointment...
keep someone posted notify, brief, advise, inform, report to, keep someone informed, keep someone up to date, apprise, fill someone in on (informal), keep someone plugged-in (slang) Keep me posted on your progress.post2noun1. job, place, office, position, situation, employment, appointment...
"Up to snuff," meaning "satisfactory" or "measuring up to the required standard" turns out to be quite an interesting phrase. First of all, "snuff" all by itself is an intriguing word, or should I say "words," because there are really two different "snuffs." The older "snuff," of ...
" meaning "prison." Romany is the language of the Gypsies, who played a notable role in the criminal underworld of 18th and 19th century England. "Stir" first appeared as slang for "jail" in the mid-19th century, and is most
and it doesn't seem to be a direct import from another language. We do know that the verb form of "nick" showed up around 1530 meaning "to make a notch in," still the primary sense of the word (as in "Some idiot nicked my bumper in the parking lot."). From there, "to nick"...