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follow up

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follow someone up and follow up (on someone)
to check on the work that someone has done. I have to follow Sally up and make sure she did everything right. I follow up Sally, checking on her work. I'll follow up on her.
See also: follow, up

follow something up and follow up (on something)

1. to check something out; to find out more about something. Would you please follow this lead up? It might be important. Please follow up this lead. I'll follow up on it. Yes, please follow up.
2. to make sure that something was done the way it was intended. Please follow this up. I want it done right. Please follow up this business. I'll follow up on it.
See also: follow, up
follow up (on something)
1. to act on something Some students said they were going to collect clothing, but they didn't follow up. You have to follow up on your application.
2. to discover more about something I'd like to follow up on Rita's question because I'm not sure I understood your answer to her.
See also: follow, up
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"Well," he said, "you may follow up that if you like; I mean to follow up the pictures.
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Let us save our breath--we shall need it all to follow up the Arabs and slay them.
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Old man Denny, hall room, fourth floor back, who sat on the lowest step, trying to read a paper by the street lamp, turned over a page to follow up the article about the carpenters' strike.
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