English of the Day

Idiom of the Day

📚quick on the uptake

✍🏾Meaning:

If you are quick on the uptake, you're smart and you can understand things quickly.

For example:

🔺Jamal's really quick on the uptake when you explain something to him, so his problem with school grades has nothing to do with any lack of intelligence. He's a very smart boy.

🔺These kids who are into rap music are really quick on the uptake, and they can easily catch the meaning of each other's rhymes. But I can't understand any of it. ★Note: The opposite is "slow on the uptake", which means to be slow to learn something or to catch someone's meaning.

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