"They're not going to like swotting up all that Polish stuff, are they?"

I enjoy what was called swotting in my day.

Diana thought pityingly of her friends, swotting away at school.

As it happens, thanks to my intense cultural swotting up recently, I've got just the thing we need right here."

He spent most of the solitary journey frantically swotting up on weather.

But as the examination time approaches, they have to explode into a frenzy of "swotting" activity.

Everyone was swotting hard for the exam as usual, their heads bent over their books.

Tons of brains and always swotting at things.

'I know, sweets - once you start swotting there's no end to it.

"I really don't think I need bother about swotting up for the exam.

I've had to do a lot of swotting.'

I try to be able to speak to each of the Trustees in his native language; I'm used to swotting up a new one quickly."

With her tiny radio providing background music, she had been sitting at a dressing table that doubled as a desk, swotting for an exam.

Teachers spend their breaks preparing lesson plans, and their evenings swotting up on jargon.

He's been swotting for weeks.

"What are you swotting now?

There had to be time for swotting, even if swotting of the hammock-based kind.

She had spent most of the morning swotting up on datawork for the meeting, and that was with nodes augmenting her brain.

LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available.

Faithful to his intention of swotting astrogation as hard as possible, Matt had brought some typical problems along.

This in turn means swotting up on the subject, going on fact-finding missions and meeting politicians and organisers.

'Then do me a favour, George, and send me a copy of the text-book he's been swotting from, will you?

'For many reasons, no great favourite... despite Dorothy's swotting up of bell-ringing and the two good maps.

BRAINY kids should start swotting for university degrees while still at school, Britain's top heads demanded yesterday.

I had been looking forward to swotting up my parts for you-but I hope I'm generous enough to give them up to others without a fuss!"

Where will she find 30 minutes in her crammed day?

Whole families were crammed into the same space as I had myself.

You crammed years of education into the last six months.

Probably no two people ever crammed more into three minutes.

And you also see a lot of people crammed together in a shot.

Three more people were crammed in the back, along with some small children.

There was just so much to be crammed into each short day.

The rest of it was crammed into the old house.

The department was already crammed into a space half the size they needed.

There are people crammed into every bit of floor space.

She did not look up until the last article was crammed in.

Right at the moment, this family room was crammed with people.

So much seemed to have been crammed into that one hour.

Nearly 3,200 students are crammed into a building designed for 1,800.

The women had been crammed together like animals, she thought.

The town council was crammed around one end of their long table.

However, he's crammed in too much information, making it difficult to read.

It stopped three times on the way down and two more people crammed themselves in.

She crammed the rest of it back into her bag.

When she arrived, there were other students crammed in the living room.

Too many things had gotten crammed up in his mind.

They were crammed in the back end of the plane.

A lot of meaning was crammed into that one word.

Trying to cram a computer into a small space makes the problem all the more difficult.

I have felt no need to try to cram the past into it as well.

Annoyingly, she was also good at games, and not considered a swot by anyone.

I served four years as a junior swot on a ship exactly like this!"

"I'll bet you were a real swot at history classes," muttered Brett.

Because well she's got a load of work to do, she's such a swot it's unbelievable!

However, the swot spot for boxing had become a school joke and was therefore seen as not worthy of a brain.

Nobody was supposed to be a swot - it was seriously frowned on.

If this is not the revenge of the swot, it is at the very least pompous.

Now he's talking like a swot.

"She did what she had to do in order to pass, but she wasn't a swot."

It is like a SWOT analysis with structure and purpose.

SWOT will have a mission lifetime of three years.

This can become more visible by doing a SWOT analysis.

He was definitely a swot,' says Fielding.

Evidently, he was also a likeable swot.

It helped if you weren't a swot at school and if you lived on the same estate.

A SWOT analysis can be carried out for a product, place, industry or person.

SWOT analysis groups key pieces of information into two main categories:

SWOT analysis is just one method of categorization and has its own weaknesses.

SWOT analysis may also be used in creating a recommendation during a viability study/survey.

She is described as the "school swot", the only pupil to go to bed on time and where she reads the works of Dostoyevsky.

"SWOT analysis provides a snapshot of the business position at a specific point in time.

Studying is "girlie" and being a "swot" and most definitely not cool to boys.

Did you use a SWOT analysis or other method?

In Annie's own youth Ruth would have been a swot in suburbia.

The boys'll think I'm just a swot.

Some people think he is too young for such a grind.

The first five weeks of the season have been a grind.

I know a few of you have been to a grind before.

But this was just the general grind of federal government.

But the daily grind will often get in the way.

You know, sort of store up on the important things before getting back into the grind.

But two years ago he decided to leave the daily grind.

It's a long grind, then you come up for air.

But in his current situation, it was a daily grind.

Ten long years away from the daily grind of high school.

All she had ever known was the grind of poverty.

Getting the right grind can make or break a cup of coffee.

His most recent film is in the 2003 release Grind.

Certainly athletes need the time at home after the grind of the season.

How can a 23-year-old woman already be sick of the daily grind?

But the grind of an 82-game season could take its toll.

"It's a grind out there for five and a half hours."

"Ok everyone break time is over, get back to the grind."

She could hear the grind of a key in the lock.

Yes, she conceded, the grind does get her down sometimes.

It's just a different type of grind with this new management.

I should be a grind, because my grades are okay.

The car came to a stop with a grind of brakes.

My very first semester at university was quite a grind, but it's much better now.

Despite the grind, however, at no point did she consider throwing the thing over.