know by heart


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know (something) by heart

To have learned or memorized something completely. Ask Becky to recite the poem—she knows it by heart. I can't sing that song in front of an audience if I don't know the words by heart!
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know something by heart

Fig. to know something perfectly; to have memorized something perfectly. I know my speech by heart. I went over and over it until I knew it by heart.
See also: heart, know
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WB: Probably not, but I had to pick a prayer that most readers would know by heart in order for the lampooning to work.
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It's only taken us 25 years, but it's the only song we now know by heart.
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The piece is meant as a call to the spirit, to the beauty we know by heart if only we could let ourselves remember.
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Yet there truly is only one story, one that we will know by heart like the story of penicillin and the birth of antibiotics--when a cure for HIV/AIDS is found.
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So the [Illegible Text] that day, the memorable ones even our children know by heart.
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It is gratifying to know by heart the masterpieces of Rembrandt, Cezanne, Botticelli, Giorgione, Sanzio, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Rubens, Goya, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh.
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Catechists traditionally were those who taught the catechism, those famous questions and answers that many older Catholics still know by heart.
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I loved seeing how they were in different places and it was always familiar; it was always very much what I knew and know by heart," she said.
Ex-vice regal 'at home' in communion
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