I've never heard such a term.I might be wrong but do you ever use an iterrogation-related term for when a person gets a second degree from a college or a university?
The idiom "Give someone the second degree" means to ask them a lot of questions. In other words, to interrogate them.
Ostap may be thing of a viva voce.
I think Barb means "the third degree"..... a colloquial term for an intensive, rough interrogation.
The police give him the third degree but he didn't break.
John
That's the viva (voce), part of the process of gaining a higher degree. Some people might consider that to be an interrogation, but the word 'interrogation' is no official part of the process.Don't some colleges make a student defend himself to a collection of professors? Maybe that's what he means, though I don't know the exact words for it. I think one defends his thesis.
I might be wrong but do you ever use an iterrogation-related term for when a person gets a second degree from a college or a university?