Classroom Phrases

Phrases

• A Room With A View (E M Forster book)
• A class act
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• All children, except one, grow up (the opening line of Peter Pan)
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• As nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
• Back room boy
• Back to school
• Baggage class
• Barrack room lawyer
• Bedroom tax (slang term for UK's removal of Spare Room Subsidy)
• Best in class
• Boiler room (The location of a high pressure telephone sales team)
• Both sides of the desk
• Breathing room
• Business class
• Cattle class
• Chalk and talk
• Charm school
• Children and fools tell the truth
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Children's shoes have far to go (Start-Rite Shoes advertising slogan)
• Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
• Class act
• Class warfare
• Comfort room (A euphemism for lavatory)
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Different class
• Driving a desk
• Economy class
• Economy class syndrome
• Elbow room
• Experience is the best teacher
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Free period
• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room (Dr.Strangelove)
• Glow Little Glow-worm (children's nursery rhyme)
• Go to the top of the class
• Goodnight children everywhere (A catchphrase from Uncle Mac)
• Grapes, like children, need love and affection (Almaden advertising slogan)
• High class
• In a class of his own
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Leave the room
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Locker room humour
• Make room

• Midnight's Children
• My heart went boom when I crossed that room (Beatles song lyric)
• Never tell tales out of school
• No room to breathe
• No room to swing a cat
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Our children are not our children
• Panic room
• Powder room
• Revenue per available room
• Revenue per occupied room
• Room for improvement
• Room for one more inside
• Room to let
• 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
• Smallest room in the house
• Smoke-filled room
• Standing room only
• Suffer the little children
• Sunday school
• Talk out of school
• Teacher's pet
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The blackboard jungle
• The elephant in the room
• The little boys' room
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• There's always room for J-E-L-L-O (Jell-O advertising slogan)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Visit the ladies room
• War room (the place where war plans are directed)
• What Katy Did At School
• White Room (Cream song)
• Wiggle room
• Women and children first
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• Working class
• World class
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)