blow sb away - blow away sb informal if a performance, film, book etc blows you away, you think it is extremely

good and you are surprised and impressed by how good it is: Calvin blew away the audience with his outstanding performance as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice'. When I first heard this record, I was blown away. bone up informal to learn as much as you can about something, in order to prepare for an examination, meeting etc + on I'm very weak in my science subjects, so I'll really have to bone up on them. + for Yesterday Dole left for San Diego, where he will bone up for Wednesday's debate.