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learn off pat

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learn something off pat

  (British, American & Australian) also learn something down pat (American)

to learn something so well that you do not have to think about how to do or say it All the answers he'd learned off pat for the interview sounded unconvincing now. (British, American & Australian)

See also: learn, off, pat