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learn by heart

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learn something by heart
Fig. to learn something so well that it can be written or recited without thinking; to memorize something. The director told me to learn my speech by heart. I had to go over it many times before I learned it by heart.
See also: heart, learn
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At first, being little accustomed to learn by heart, the lessons appeared to me both long and difficult; the frequent change from task to task, too, bewildered me; and I was glad when, about three o'clock in the afternoon, Miss Smith put into my hands a border of muslin two yards long, together with needle, thimble, &c.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
But the Doctor, after hearing their story, doesn't make much of it, and only gives them thirty lines of Homer to learn by heart, and a lecture on the likelihood of such exploits ending in broken bones.
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context
All this will show you how much Mowgli had to learn by heart, and he grew very tired of saying the same thing over a hundred times.
The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
 
 
 
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