Academic Phrases

Phrases

• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• A gentleman and a scholar
• Absent minded professor
• American Pie (Don Mclean song)
• And the Academy Award goes to...
• Captain Underpants And The Perilous Plot Of Professor Poopypants (Dav Pilkey book)
• Crazy Gun Barney (Nickname of Barney Fife (Don Knotts))
• Dandy Don (Nickname of American football player Don Meredith)
• Donnie (Nickname of baseball player Don Mattingly)
• High culture (refined artistic or intellectual achievement)
• Intellectual capital
• It's academic
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• The Don (Nickname of Donald Bradman - Australian cricketer)
• The Napoleon of Crime (Nickname of Professor Moriarty)
• The philosopher's stone
• Up the academy