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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | | © The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 2006, originally published by Oxford University Press 2006. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

learn learn by heart (or by rote) commit formulaic information, or a passage of prose or verse, to memory, so that it can be repeated.

See also live and learn, it is never too late to learn.

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