Start by basically learning the language of Arabic; if you can read it without understanding that will also be fine as Arabic can easily be memorised without knowing meaning of it!
However, if we are talking about an idiom -- that is, a group of words whose meaning cannot be understood by knowing the meanings of the individual words -- sour grapes," meaning "a denial of the value of what one cannot attain," comes from Aesop's fable "The Fox and the Grapes".
At the very least, shouldn't a writer try to shield the kettle of language from further cracks by knowing the meanings of the words he uses?
Listening to the sounds of a poem or play uttered in an unfamiliar language gives some idea of the importance in literature of knowing the meanings of the words.
"At the very least, shouldn't a writer try to shield the kettle of language from further cracks by knowing the meanings of the words he uses?" asked Mars-Jones, adding "the book's pages are filled with thoughts about art, or (more ominously) Thoughts about Art".
We were primarily interested in knowing the meanings adolescents attach to their prevailing experiences and their representations of drinking alcohol.
That is, merely by knowing the meanings of "seven," and "eight," and "addition," we see that it follows necessarily that "7 + 8 = 15" (1848, 471).
"Analytic" sentences, such as "Ophthalmologists are doctors," are those whose truth seems to be knowable by knowing the meanings of the constituent words alone, unlike the more usual "synthetic" ones, such as "Ophthalmologists are rich," whose truth is knowable by both knowing the meaning of the words and something about the world.
Most people, for example, would distinguish our original two sets of sentences (§1), by saying that sentences of the second set, such as "All ophthalmologists are eye doctors," could be known to be true just by knowing the meanings of the constituent words.
Sometimes we just don't bother and end without knowing the meanings".
