Class Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• All manner of
• All set
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Apple pie order
• Back to school
• Baggage class
• Bang out of order
• Best in class
• Bobos in Paradise
• Built to order
• Business class
• By no manner of means
• CD quality
• Cattle class
• Charm school
• Chattering classes
• Citizen Smith (BBC comedy television series)
• Clash of civilizations
• Clash of culture
• Clash of the titans
• Class act
• Class warfare
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Richard Dreyfuss movie)
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Congratulations are in order
• Cruel to be kind
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Different class
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Economy class
• Economy class syndrome
• Experience is the best teacher
• Face card (the jack queeen or king in a set of playing cards)
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Free period
• Gagging order
• Game set and match
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Go to the top of the class
• Got your heart set on
• Hate watch (viewing a television programme in order to mock it)
• High class
• Horsy set
• Human kind cannot bear very much reality (from a poem by Eliot)
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• In a class of his own
• In a manner of speaking
• In short order
• In the order of
• It's A Kind Of Magic (Queen song)
• It's kind to your throat (Craven 'A' Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• It's never too late to learn
• Kind Of Blue (Miles Davis tune and album)
• Kind words
• Law and order
• Learn the ropes
• Learn your lesson
• Letter quality
• Life lesson
• Live and learn
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• London Calling (The Clash song)
• Mail order bride
• Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
• Marry beneath you
• McDonald's is Your Kind of Place (McDonald's advertising slogan)
• Middle England
• Never tell tales out of school
• Not my type (not a person one is attracted to)
• Object lesson
• Old school
• Old school tie
• On The Origin Of Species (Charles Darwin book)
• On your mark, get set, go
• Order about
• Order in the court
• Order of magnitude
• Order order
• Order up
• Out of order
• POSH - Port out, starboard home (false attribution of the origin of the word posh)
• Pecking order
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Pish posh
• Premium quality

• Put your house in order
• Quality control
• Quality is job one (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Quality never goes out of style (Levi's Jeans advertising slogan)
• Quality time
• Ready set go
• Ready, get set, go
• Rubber chicken (poor quality or overcooked chicken)
• Rubber chicken curcuit (a speaking or fundraising event at which poor quality meat is served)
• Saviour sibling (a child born in order to provide a transplant for another with a fatal disease)
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Second class
• Set Fire to the Rain (Adele song)
• Set a thief to catch a thief
• Set eyes on
• Set foot in
• Set forth
• Set great store by
• Set in concrete
• Set in motion
• Set in train
• Set of wheels
• Set sail
• Set straight
• Set the Thames on fire
• Set the record straight
• Set the stage
• Set the world on fire
• Set the world to rights
• Set tongues wagging
• Set your cap at
• Set your face against something
• Set your hair on fire
• Set your heart on something
• Set your mind at ease
• Set your sights on
• Set your stall out
• Set your teeth on edge
• Set yourself apart
• Shirtsleeve order
• Side order
• So powerful, it's kind of ridiculous (3dfx advertising slogan)
• Some kind of a nut
• Star quality
• Strong, silent type
• Sunday school
• Talk out of school
• Tall order
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Teacher's pet
• Tell tales out of school
• That'll teach you
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The female of the species is more deadly than the male
• The north south divide
• The order of the boot
• The order of the day
• The quality of mercy is not strained (from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare)
• The rot has set in
• The stage is set
• The truth shall set you free
• This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle
• Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
• To the manner born
• Too posh to push
• Too posh to wash
• Top quality
• Two of a kind
• Upper crust
• Upstairs, downstairs
• Watch and learn
• What Katy Did At School
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• Working class
• World class
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• You are never too old to learn
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)
• You're Wendy's kind of people (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)
• Your choice down at Wendy's, where quality is our recipe (Wendy Burgers advertising slogan)

Related

• A class act
• Baggage class
• Best in class
• Business class
• Cattle class
• Class act
• Class warfare
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Different class
• Economy class
• Economy class syndrome
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Go to the top of the class
• High class
• In a class of his own
• Second class
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• Working class
• World class
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)