Often, it means a series of brush-up courses for industry veterans.

She'd have to go into Vancouver for brush-up courses in typing and shorthand.

"I mightJesus-I might take another brush-up course at some business school and get a job as a secretary."

Television portraits of composers, however well intended, usually walk an awkward line between being an introduction for the uninitiated and a brush-up course for aficionados.

Even if you don't sit at the bar, stop there for a brush-up course in the seafood available: a goodly variety of fish and other sea creatures are lined up for view in refrigerated rows at the bar.

New York City's Schools Chancellor will recommend today that the schools completely revamp their mathematics education, requiring all students to take algebra, geometry and trigonometry, requiring teachers to take brush-up courses and offering lessons to parents so they can help their children.