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Check up on   /tʃɛk əp ɑn/   Listen
Check up on

verb
1.
Examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition.  Synonyms: check, check into, check out, check over, go over, look into, suss out.  "Check out the engine"






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"Check up on" Quotes from Famous Books



... templet will not only be a help to getting all curved surfaces the same, but will also check up on the various new diameters on the model. The cylinder should never be in motion while the templet is ...
— A Course In Wood Turning • Archie S. Milton and Otto K. Wohlers

... weight carefully, call the boy and send the precious fruit right home to our wife. Our annual biggest pumpkin is long overdue and undelivered. You might just head that item 'When the Frost is on the Punkin.' We have captious subscribers who check up on favorite quotations and our aim is ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... somebody to get anywheres, you gotta know yourself! That's all! Just lay off thinkin' how lucky the other guy is, and give Stephen X. You a minute's attention. You may be the biggest guy in the world at somethin', if you'll only check up on yourself and see what that somethin' is! Remember Whosthis says, 'Full many a rose is born to blush unseen—' Well, don't be one of them desert flowers; come into the city and let 'em all watch you ...
— Kid Scanlan • H. C. Witwer

... "We might as well check up on Hapgood's investigations," said Mr. Emerson. "They may be all right, and he may be honestly mistaken in thinking that his Emily is the Clarks' Emily; or he may have faked some of his records. It won't take us long to find out. Mr. ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith



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