University Phrases

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)