Talk:learn by heart

learn by heart
Probably sum of parts - learn + by heart. See also sing by heart, read by heart, play by heart, know by heart, etc. ---&gt; Tooironic 23:32, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs has know something by heart (most common example of this construction per COCA @ 377/616) and learn something by heart (2nd @ 71), but not recite something by heart (3rd @ 32).
 * We could have:
 * entries for each of the attestable verb-variants of this construction.
 * redirects from each to by heart.
 * an appendix for the "[VP] by heart" construction linked to from by heart and for each of the verb-variants.
 * Other possibilities exist, such as having a full entry at the most common instance or all the instances that any dictionary has with redirects from any other verb-variants.
 * What do others think? DCDuring TALK 00:17, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Door number 2. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 06:12, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Redirect would be fine (door #2). A usage note in "by heart" to the effect of 'Frequently used in the phrases "learn by heart", "sing by heart", "read by heart", "play by heart", "know by heart"' would be nice. Or else there could be an example sentence per phrase or collocation, but this seems too much text only for the purpose of highlighting the common links to verbs. --Dan Polansky 08:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Get by heart is common too. Equinox ◑ 12:19, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, straightforward enough tbh. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:44, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
 * What does "get by heart" mean, honestly? --Dan Polansky 08:55, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Same as "learn by heart". Try a search for "get it by heart" in Google Books. Equinox ◑ 10:34, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

'''Failed. Converted to redirect.''' &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 19:50, 3 February 2011 (UTC)