bone up

How did so many bones up and vanish?

It doesn’t require boning up, unlike a complex ballot proposition.

That means he’s had 37 years — half his life — to bone up on the issues.

Per the film, this is a natural consequence of not boning up on your “Emily Post.”

Della Donna started boning up on criminal law, talking to every criminal attorney she could find and eventually turning to UCI Law School.