Phrase thesaurus
University Phrases
39 phrases and expressions related to "university".
Phrases
- 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)
- And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
- And the Academy Award goes to...
- Back to school
- Big man on campus
- Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
- Charm school
- Community of learners
- Core studies
- Desmond Tutu (Cockney rhyming slang for Second class degree (2,2))
- Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
- Give it the old college try
- Handbrake turn (180 degree turn in a car by locking the back wheels)
- Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me (The Graduate)
- 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
- Second degree burns
- 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)
- The Graduate (Dustin Hoffman movie)
- The dreaming spires (an idealised images of the colleges of Oxford)
- The nth degree
- Third degree
- Town and gown
- Up the academy
- What Katy Did At School
- Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)