Schoolteacher Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• A miss is as good as a mile
• Above board
• Across the board
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• American Express? That'll do nicely sir (American Express advertising slogan)
• An ill-favoured thing sir, but mine own
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Arise Sir Lancelot
• As different as chalk and cheese
• Aye aye sir
• Baby on board
• Back to school
• Back to the drawing board
• Baggage class
• Be It Ever So Humble There's No Place Like Home (John Howard Payne and Sir Henry Bishop song)
• Bed and board
• Beef. It's what's for dinner (Cattlemen's Beef Board advertising slogan)
• Best in class
• Blink and you'll miss it
• Business class
• Can I do you now, sir? (A catchphrase from It's That Man Again (ITMA))
• Cattle class
• Chalk and talk
• Chalk it up to experience
• Charm school
• Class act
• Class warfare
• Come home to a real fire (Coal Board advertising slogan)
• Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
• Different class
• Dizzy Miss Lizzie (Beatles song)
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Drink more milk (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Drinka pinta milka day (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy / Morgan Freeman movie)
• Economy class
• Economy class syndrome
• Experience is the best teacher
• Fast food and good for you (Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Flash Harry (Nickname of Sir Malcolm Sargent)
• Form is temporary, class is permanent
• Full of natural goodness (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• 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 by the board
• Go to the top of the class
• Go to work on an egg (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Good Golly Miss Molly (Little Richard song)
• Got milk? (California Milk Processor Board advertising slogan)
• Groaning board
• Happiness is egg shaped (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• High class
• Hit and miss
• I hear you! (A catchphrase from Miss Kraus in Benson)
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• I'll be leaving you now Sir
• I'll give it a miss

• Idiot board
• In a class of his own
• Is your man getting enough? (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Junior miss
• Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey (line from nursery rhyme)
• Milk's gotta lotta bottle (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Miss the boat
• Miss the cut
• Naruwan, Welcome to Taiwan (Taiwan Tourist Board advertising slogan)
• Near miss
• Never tell tales out of school
• Not by a long chalk
• Old school
• Old school tie
• On board
• 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
• Sir Charles (Nickname of Charles Barkley)
• Something for the weekend sir?
• Sounding board
• Suit you, sir (A catchphrase from The Fast Show)
• Sunday school
• Sweep the board
• Take something on board
• Talk out of school
• 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 Chairman of The Board (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• The Divine Miss M.(Nickname of Bette Midler)
• The Fifth Beatle (Nickname of Sir George Martin)
• The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book)
• The Scarlet Pimpernel (Pseudonym of Sir Percy Blakeney)
• The Wizard of Dribble (Nickname of Sir Stanley Matthews)
• To Sir With Love (Sidney Poitier)
• Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing (Sir Thomas Beecham quotation)
• Walk the chalk
• Watch out there's a Humphrey about (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• What Katy Did At School
• Working Class Hero (John Lennon song)
• Working class
• World class
• World class, worldwide (Air Canada advertising slogan)
• Yes Sir, I Can Boogie (Baccara song)
• You can rely on the lion (British Egg Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• You can't miss it
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks