College Phrases

Phrases

• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• Absent minded professor
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And the Academy Award goes to...
• Big man on campus
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Give it the old college try
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• It's never too late to learn
• Learn the ropes
• Learn your lesson
• Live and learn
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teach someone a thing or two
• That'll teach you
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The dreaming spires (an idealised images of the colleges of Oxford)
• Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
• Up the academy
• Watch and learn
• 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)
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)