by heart
prep_phrase/baɪ ˈhɑːt/UK/baɪ ˈhɑɹt/US
Etymology
From Middle English by herte. Compare French par cœur (literally “by heart”), of which the English may be a calque.
- inherited from by herte
Definitions
From unaided memory and in full detail.
- to learn something by heart
- to know something by heart
- He used to live in that town, and he still knows all the streets by heart.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for by heart. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA