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Idioms are combinations of words or phrases that has figurative meaning and don’t have to be taken literally, we use them to express ourselves in a different and funny way.


Four idioms with its meaning[]

1. Learn sth by heart - to memorize something.

2. Read sb like a book - to understand someone very well.

3. Learn one’s lesson - to suffer a bad experience and know not to do it again.

4. Live and learn - something that you say when you have just discovered something that you did not know.

Examples:[]

1. Claire ''learnt'' the poem 'by heart' for the test.

2. After being married for twenty-five years, I can 'read' my husband 'like a book.

3. Tom was ill after eating too much. He won’t do it again, he 'learnt his lesson!

4. I didn’t know our teacher had eight children. Well, you 'live and learn!

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