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        | inizia ad imparare |  |   Katy is a real bookworm, she reads several books a week. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare Someone who does or says exactly the same as someone else.  |  |   Stop wearing the same clothes as I do, don't be such a copycat! |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory.  |  |   to learn something by heart    I have to learn this poem by heart for my Polish classes. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To have a bad experience.  |  |   I learned the hard way when I worked in the UK. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To learn how to do a job.  |  |   Before you start you have to learn the ropes. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To suffer a bad experience and know not to do it again  |  |   I'll never take my parents' car without permission, I learned my lesson. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare Said when you hear or discover something which is surprising:  |  |   So he is a headhunter, I never knew. You live and learn. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare Education one gets from life's usually negative experiences  |  |   the School of Hard Knocks    Some people get the school of Hard Knocks instead of formal education. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare A student who is ridiculed for studying excessively.  |  |   Everybody call me a swot, but I will have the last laugh when I get the Nobel prize. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare The older you are the more set in your ways you become.  |  |   You cannot teach an old dog new tricks    I tried to teach my grandfather sending e-mails, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To be the favourite pupil of the teacher.  |  |   My sister is a teacher's pet, she always gets the best marks. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To do something to someone, usually to punish them.  |  |   to teach someone a lesson    He called you names?! I'll teach him a lesson! |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare To give advice to someone about a subject that they already know more about than you  |  |   to teach your grandmother to suck eggs    Don't tell me how to bake, I've baked for 30 years, don't teach grandmother to suck eggs. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare People who never went on to higher education often say this.  |  |   I studied at the University of Life.    I never received a formal education, but I studied at the University of Life. |  |  | 
|  inizia ad imparare If you pass an exam with flying colours, you do it very successfully.  |  |   I passed my exams with flying colours. I have seven As. |  |  |