a lot about
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- idiom
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mucho sobre
- In our history class, we discussed many events, so I learned a lot about the Civil War.
- know a lot about
- learn a lot about
- talk a lot about
I've been reading a lot about Stalin and power.
- I've been reading a lot about Stalin and power.
- They've they've taught me a lot about making things robust.
- So we, we, we know a lot about the mechanisms, right?
- So we got to know a lot about the Valley here.
- I just feel like he's taught me a lot about love and forgiveness.
- Black jobs tells a lot about the man and about his character.
- I don't know a lot about birds.
- So we've learned a lot about the weapon.
Examples
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Through the year, I learned a lot about photography and many different artists/photographers.
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The World Bank and the global community have learned a lot about development in the past 50 years.
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So we got to know a lot about the Valley here.
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My wife and I talk a lot about how lucky we are.
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I was just gonna say that you seem to know a lot about business.
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But from them, I learned a lot about what artists look at and what they say about it.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his favorite author is.
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I knew quite a lot about Kiev, in fact, before I came.
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I just feel like he's taught me a lot about love and forgiveness.
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We've really learned a lot about the Galaxy.
Synonyms
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Shows that something is done a lot
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A fairly large amount
A large amount of something you cannot count
Antonyms
How Knowledgeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from the constituents: 'a lot' = a large amount and 'about' = concerning; together they yield 'a large amount concerning (a topic)'. This is a fully compositional, cross-linguistically common pattern that a B1 learner who knows the words will reliably understand.
Etymology
A lot about comes from the picture of having a lot, like a big pile of books or facts, all about a subject. So, when someone knows a lot about something, it means they have many facts and details — 'a large amount of knowledge'.