Education Phrases

Phrases

• A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes story)
• A diller, a dollar, a ten o'clock scholar
• A gentleman and a scholar
• A little learning is a dangerous thing (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• A mind is a terrible thing to waste (United Negro College Fund advertising slogan)
• Adaptive learning
• Alma Mater (the school or college from which a person has graduated)
• And shining morning face, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school
• Back to school
• Book learning
• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education (Mark Twain quotation)
• Charm school
• Correspondence course
• Distance learning
• Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
• Education education education (Tony Blair political slogan)
• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime
• Gravy train
• Hey, Soul Sister (Train song)
• I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers song)
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• In a brown study
• Learning curve
• Learning difficulties
• Let the train take the strain (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Model pupil
• Never tell tales out of school
• Night Train (Nickname of Dick Lane)
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Oxford scholar (Cockney rhyming slang for dollar)
• Quick study
• Road train

• School dunce
• School for scandal
• School of fish
• School of hard knocks
• School of thought
• School's out for summer
• School's out forever
• Set in train
• Soul train
• Strangers On A Train (Farley Granger / Alfred Hitchcock movie)
• Study buddy
• Sunday school
• Take The A Train (Duke Ellington tune)
• Talk out of school
• Teach someone a lesson
• Teach someone a thing or two
• Tell tales out of school
• That'll teach you
• The Adventure of the Priory School (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Big Train (Nickname of Walter Johnson)
• The Bronx Zoo (Nickname of Benjamin Harrison High School)
• The light at the end of the tunnel may just be a train coming the other way
• The proper study of mankind is man (from a poem by Alexander Pope)
• This is the age of the train (British Rail advertising slogan)
• Train crash
• Train of thought
• Train whistle blowing
• Train wreck
• Ukraine Train (Nickname of Vitaly Potapenko)
• Unlock your future
• What Katy Did At School
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• Your starter for ten (A catchphrase from University Challenge)