Baliol 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)
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Give it the old college try
• Oxford Blue
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• The City of Dreaming Spires (Nickname of the city of Oxford)
• The dreaming spires (an idealised images of the colleges of Oxford)