Student Phrases

Phrases

• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• A gentleman and a scholar
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• Both sides of the desk
• Burger flipper
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Every schoolboy knows
• Give it the old college try
• Go to the top of the class
• Keep that schoolgirl complexion (Palmolive Soap advertising slogan)
• Model pupil
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• Schoolboy crush
• Schoolgirl crush
• Space cadet
• Study buddy
• The Adventure of the Three Students (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Devil's Disciple (Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie)
• You're fired! (A catchphrase from The Apprentice)