School Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• Action Man (children's male doll)
• Adaptive learning
• 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
• And the Academy Award goes to...
• Back to school
• Baggage class
• Best in class
• Body building
• Book learning
• Both sides of the desk
• Building castles in the air
• Business class
• Cattle class
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• 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
• Community of learners
• Desk jockey
• Desk rage
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Different class
• Distance learning
• Do your homework
• Driving a desk
• Economy class
• Economy class syndrome
• Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Elvis has left the building
• Empire State Building
• Eton blue
• Every schoolboy knows
• Experience is the best teacher
• Fag hag
• Far better for being near to you (The Chesham Building Society advertising slogan)
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• 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)
• Gravy train
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• High class
• Hit the books
• I'm going to tell on you
• In a class of his own
• Investments with Abbey endings (Abbey National Building Society advertising slogan)
• It's never too late to learn
• Lady Madonna, children at your feet (Beatles song lyric)
• Learn the ropes
• Learn your lesson
• Learning curve
• Learning difficulties
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Let's rock (A catchphrase from Al Bundy In Married With Children)
• Life lesson
• Live and learn

• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Midnight's Children
• Model pupil
• Never tell tales out of school
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Object lesson
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Our children are not our children
• Play hookey
• Road train
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Schooldays are the happiest days of your life
• Schoolgirl crush
• Second class
• Set in train
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Show and tell
• Soul train
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Suffer the little children
• Sunday school
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Talk out of school
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teacher's pet
• Tell tales out of school
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The Chrysler Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Empire State Building (tourist attraction in New York USA)
• The Famous Five (characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book)
• The blackboard jungle
• The dog ate my homework
• The happiest days of your life
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The wheels on the bus go round and round (title of children's song)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• 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)
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• Up the academy
• Watch and learn
• We'll do the homework (Bendix Appliances advertising slogan)
• We're with the Woolwich (Woolwich Building Society advertising slogan)
• What Katy Did At School
• Women and children first
• 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 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)

Related

• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Back to school
• Charm school
• Never tell tales out of school
• Old school
• Old school tie
• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Sunday school
• 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)
• What Katy Did At School