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Dear teachers,
Just now I read an article concerning the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and I was wonder-struck from the used expressions for “expulsion” as well as for “hard work”.
Women at Oxford and Cambridge are accepted as a favor.
I’ve been told by friends of mine that the competition for places in the five women’s colleges is so great that to avoid being “sent down” to make room for someone else they have to work very hard. They have to keep their noses to the grindstone much more than the men.
send down = expelled
Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example,
“He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford.”
The student or undergraduate is responsible to his college for discipline and he may be punished by the dean or senior tutor of his college in various ways, depending on the seriousness of the offence-they may “gate” him, i.g. confine him to college after certain hours, may “rusticate” him, i.e. send him down for a limited time, or they may “send him down” for a very serious offence. Failure to pass exams and thus lower the academic prestige of a college is a “crime” punishable by expulsion in many universities.
get the gate Slang.
To be dismissed or rejected.
rusticate (chiefly British) to suspend (a student) from a university.
expulsion = the act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
keep one's nose to the grindstone
Stay hard at work, as in
“We expect John to get good grades again, since he really keeps his nose to the “grindstone.
This expression, first recorded in 1539, alludes to a tool that must be sharpened by being held to a grindstone.
Would you tell to me whether the mentioned above expressions have a contemporary sounding?
Regards.
V.
Just now I read an article concerning the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge and I was wonder-struck from the used expressions for “expulsion” as well as for “hard work”.
Women at Oxford and Cambridge are accepted as a favor.
I’ve been told by friends of mine that the competition for places in the five women’s colleges is so great that to avoid being “sent down” to make room for someone else they have to work very hard. They have to keep their noses to the grindstone much more than the men.
send down = expelled
Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example,
“He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford.”
The student or undergraduate is responsible to his college for discipline and he may be punished by the dean or senior tutor of his college in various ways, depending on the seriousness of the offence-they may “gate” him, i.g. confine him to college after certain hours, may “rusticate” him, i.e. send him down for a limited time, or they may “send him down” for a very serious offence. Failure to pass exams and thus lower the academic prestige of a college is a “crime” punishable by expulsion in many universities.
get the gate Slang.
To be dismissed or rejected.
rusticate (chiefly British) to suspend (a student) from a university.
expulsion = the act of expelling or the state of being expelled.
keep one's nose to the grindstone
Stay hard at work, as in
“We expect John to get good grades again, since he really keeps his nose to the “grindstone.
This expression, first recorded in 1539, alludes to a tool that must be sharpened by being held to a grindstone.
Would you tell to me whether the mentioned above expressions have a contemporary sounding?
Regards.
V.
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