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Reading the story Honeymoon by K. Mansfield, I came across the following passage:
Fanny's heart sank. She had heard for years of the frightful dangers of the Mediterranean. It was an absolute death-trap. Beautiful, treacherous Mediterranean. There it lay curled before them, its white, silky paws touching the stones and gone again ... But she'd made up her mind long before she was married that never would she be the kind of woman who interfered with her husband's pleasures, so all she said was, airily, " I suppose one has to be very up in the currents, doesn't one ?"
" Oh, I don't know," said George. " People talk an awful lot of rot about the danger."
My question is: What does 'to be up' mean in this context? Is it a common idiom and is it often used with this meaning?
Fanny's heart sank. She had heard for years of the frightful dangers of the Mediterranean. It was an absolute death-trap. Beautiful, treacherous Mediterranean. There it lay curled before them, its white, silky paws touching the stones and gone again ... But she'd made up her mind long before she was married that never would she be the kind of woman who interfered with her husband's pleasures, so all she said was, airily, " I suppose one has to be very up in the currents, doesn't one ?"
" Oh, I don't know," said George. " People talk an awful lot of rot about the danger."
My question is: What does 'to be up' mean in this context? Is it a common idiom and is it often used with this meaning?
