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Writer: Li Dan | Editor: Zhang Chanwen | From: Shenzhen Daily | Updated: 2024-02-22
A: How’s your first day at the new company?
B: The manager genned us up on the history and current status of the company in the morning and gave us a tour around the headquarters in the afternoon.
Note: This idiom means “to inform or educate someone about something” or “to give someone the required information about something.” This informal usage is primarily heard in the U.K. “Gen” is a casual way to refer to “general information” and is also used as verb, meaning “to give information.” For example: So who’s going to give me the gen on (or “gen me up on”) what’s happened while I was away?