Idioms from Education
Purposes
There exist a lot of idioms connected with education.
They all come from the school sector but now are
used in daily life.
So, it‘s better to now them to make you speech more
brightful.
Cover a lot of ground
To have a lot of material or information to get through
to understand it.
Can‘t teach an old dog new tricks
It‘s impossible to teach an old person to do something
new.
To be old school
When someone likes something that is old-fashioned,
they are old school.
Also, if something is not modern, it‘s old school, too.
School of thought
When someone subscribe to a particular school of
thought, they behave in a definite way of viewing
something
To learn the ropes
To learn how to do something new.
To teach somebody a lesson
To punish someone for something to make them to
understand how to behave in a better way
To learn a lesson
To understand something by means of going through
the bad experience
To school someone
To teach someone.
In slang: to embarrass someone by showing them that
they are nothing in doing something.
‘A’ for effort
It‘s used when someone was trying to do something but thei
r result is still not good enough.
To make the grade
To reach the certain quality or level in doing something.
Recources
1. www.engvid.com (https://www.engvid.com/10-english-idio
ms-expressions-education/)
2. LongMan Dictionary (https://www.ldoceonline.com/)
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