Surely its our brain that remembers things?
2007-12-09 06:00:40 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Here's a link which gives some ideas of its origin:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/19/messages/1001.html
2007-12-09 06:04:18 · answer #1 · answered by JaneB 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Off By Heart
2016-10-01 10:40:16 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A typical example would be for a regular church goer. The preacher says'we will now say the lords prayer'but some one would not have to look at the prayer book because he/she would have learned it off by heart. Amen.
2007-12-09 06:57:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means when you intend to put your heart and soul into something. Other than that I don't really know but it is a good question.
2007-12-09 06:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by Tango 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To know it by heart means that you can recite it without even thinking. You have reached a point where you know it in your heart, not just your brain.
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2007-12-09 07:32:26 · answer #5 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting paradox. You have to know something so well that it's close to your heart.
2007-12-09 06:04:06 · answer #6 · answered by . 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The early Greeks thought that we learned with our heart, and not head.
They got other things correct, so we can forgive them for this idea.
C. :)!!
2007-12-09 06:09:03 · answer #7 · answered by Charlie Kicksass 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The ancient greeks thought that the heart was the control centre of the body, not the brain. So they thought that we learnt things with her heart, not brain.
2007-12-09 06:14:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Interesting I shall investigate.
No google has let me down! Sorry
2007-12-09 06:03:29 · answer #9 · answered by cleocat 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋