Pupil Phrases

Phrases

• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• A gentleman and a scholar
• A wandering eye
• All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
• All my eye and Betty Martin
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• Am catching
• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Arm candy
• As far as the eye can see
• Back to school
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Bird's eye view
• Cast an eye over
• Catch your eye
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Charm school
• Click bait (an eye ctaching word or image on a website)
• Come home to Birds Eye Country (Birds Eye Frozen Foods advertising slogan)
• Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Eye candy
• Eye for a bargain
• Eye it try it buy it! (Chevrolet advertising slogan)
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Eye of the Tiger (Survivor song)
• Eye of the storm
• Eye popping
• Eye someone up and down
• Eye to eye
• Eye up the competition
• Eye watering
• Get your eye in
• Give one's eye teeth for
• Got my eye in
• Got my eye on
• Half an eye
• Here's mud in your eye
• Here's one in your eye
• I spy with my little eye
• I've got my eye on you
• In a pig's eye
• In my mind's eye, Horatio
• In the blink of an eye
• In the public eye
• In the twinkling of an eye
• It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
• It's never too late to learn
• Just a glint in his father's eye
• Keep a weather eye open
• Keep an eye on
• Keep an eye open

• Keep an eye out
• Keep your eye on the ball
• 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)
• Look death in the eye
• Meet one's eye
• Model pupil
• More than meets the eye
• Never tell tales out of school
• Not A Dry Eye In The House (Meatloaf song)
• Not a dry eye in the house
• Old school
• Old school tie
• One in the eye
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• Put a sparkle in your eye
• Quicker than the eye
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• See eye to eye
• Side eye (a sidelong glance)
• Sleep with one eye open
• Spit in the eye of
• Sunday school
• Sweet as the moment when the pod went 'pop' (Birds Eye Peas advertising slogan)
• Talk out of school
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• The Eye into the Eyes (CBS advertising slogan)
• The all seeing eye
• The apple of his eye
• The eye in the sky
• The hand is quicker than the eye
• They're waffly versatile (Bird's Eye Potato Waffles advertising slogan)
• Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
• Through the eye of a needle
• Turn a blind eye
• Watch and learn
• What Katy Did At School
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• With a jaundiced eye
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You are never too old to learn
• You could learn a lot from a dummy, Buckle Up (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration advertising slogan)