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learn something by heart
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to learn something so well that you can say it from memory
Used for poems, speeches, phone numbers and vocabulary. British English also says 'know something off by heart'.
In context
In secondary school, we had to learn a poem by heart every week.
Instead of learning model answers by heart, practise talking about your own life.
More idioms about study
- a steep learning curvea situation where you must learn a lot of new things very quickly
- get the hang ofto learn how to do something, especially after some practice
- get your head aroundto manage to understand something that is complicated or surprising
- hit the booksto start studying hard, especially before an exam
- it's not rocket scienceused to say that something is not difficult to understand or do