brushed up
Polished rusty skills
Brushed up is the past tense of brush up, meaning to refresh or improve skills or knowledge that have grown rusty: I brushed up on my Spanish before the trip.
The phrase suggests polishing something already learned rather than starting fresh.
It can also mean to make oneself presentable: He brushed up before the interview.
- refreshedRestored to vigor
- revisedChanged after reconsideration
- went overExamined or traversed
- sharpenedMade more cutting
- relearnGain knowledge anew
read up on · practiced · renewed · studied · spruced · tidied · polished · reacquainted · picked up again · dusted off · honed · updated · reviewed · crammed · improve · perfected · enhanced · styled
skill condition
brushed uprusty
Corroded or unpracticed
out of practice · unpracticed · stale · rough · unpolished