How I Taught My Grandmother to Read / Bharat Our Land
Idioms about learning
Learn idioms about learning and use them in sentences.
An idiom means more than its words. It is a fixed group of words whose meaning you cannot guess from the single words. Avva 'passed with flying colours': she did outstandingly well. Nobody waved any flags.
Idioms about studying:
- to hit the books: to start studying seriously;
- to burn the midnight oil: to study or work till late at night.
Idioms about remembering:
- to draw a blank: to fail to remember something;
- to rack one's brain: to think as hard as you can.
Idioms about learning:
- to learn the ropes: to understand how to do something new;
- to learn by heart: to memorise (Avva could repeat the episodes by heart).
Using them well. Keep an idiom in its fixed form (burn the midnight oil, not burn the night oil), and use it only where it fits.
An idiom means more than its words.
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