to fill in
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2.8
- phrasal verb
- /fɪl ɪn/
- Informal
:
poner al tanto de
- Mike filled me in on the details.
- fill in the gaps
- fill in the details
Because I need you to help me fill in my knowledge gaps, right?
- Because I need you to help me fill in my knowledge gaps, right?
- So I've got two guys filling me in the gym.
Examples
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Is this, like, can you fill us in on what was said behind the open door?
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Nellie, whose father was on the council, filled me in on every detail of the meeting.
Fiction book (1999) -
But yeah, I just kind of wanted to tell you guys and fill you in on that.
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So I just wanted to fill you in on that.
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I'll fill you in on the rest later.
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I'll fill you in later.
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Thank you for filling me in.
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" Mr. Adler, could you fill us in on what happened on your trip? "
Fiction book (1991) -
Why don't you fill him in on what's been going on?
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Can you fill in the team about the latest developments in the project?
Antonyms
How Informed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense of adding shading is a literal instantiation of 'fill' (to make something full by adding contents) combined with 'in' (into/inside), so the meaning of putting color or lines into areas is directly derivable from the constituents. This is a common, compositional phrasal-verb pattern and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely understand it.
Etymology
Fill in for information comes from the idea of filling the empty parts of a story or a conversation; you put facts into the missing spaces to make the story whole. That's why to 'fill in' someone means 'to give someone the necessary or recent information'.