17 Education Idioms & Phrases | Build your informal vocabulary
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 Published On Jan 11, 2023

Education is the key to unlocking the world. In this lesson, I want to help you unlock your vocabulary potential by teaching you different idioms and phrases related to education.

In case you would like to review, here are the idioms from the lesson.

1. draw a blank
2. back to the basics
3. back to the drawing board
4. copycat
5. to cover a lot of ground
6. show of hands
7. to drop out (of school) | dropout
8. (someone) is of/from the old school
9. "A" for effort
10. to learn (something) by heart
11. cut class | skip class | play hooky
12. school of thought
13. to teach (someone) a lesson
14. to learn a lesson
15. goof off | goof around
16. hit the books
17. to pull an all-nighter

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/// LESSON CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro to Education Idioms
0:40 draw a blank
1:28 back to the basics
2:12 back to the drawing board
2:46 copycat
3:34 to cover a lot of ground
4:48 show of hands
5:57 to drop out of school | dropout
6:47 (someone) is of/from the old school
7:54 "A" for effort
9:12 to learn (something) by heart
10:30 cut class | skip class | play hooky
12:05 school of thought
12:49 to teach (someone) a lesson
13:34 to learn a lesson
14:10 goof off | goof around
15:26 hit the books
16:22 to pull an all-nighter
17:33 Review of Idioms

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