know by heart
Recall without prompting
To know something by heart is to have it memorized so thoroughly you can recall it without reference—a poem, a speech, a phone number.
The phrase suggests the knowledge lives deep within you, not just in your head: She knows all the lyrics by heart.
Learning something by heart means committing it to memory through repetition.
- recollectRetrieve past experiences
- memorizeFix in mind
- fluencySmooth linguistic command
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
- retrieveGet something back
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