School-for-scandal
noun
1.
a comedy of manners (1777) by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
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Fresh, glowing, unblemished skin, as in She’s fifty but she still has her schoolgirl complexion. This expression, alluding to the beauty of young skin, was invented for an advertising campaign for Palmolive Soap, which ran from about 1923 through the 1930s and claimed to preserve one’s schoolgirl complexion.
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noun 1. a fish that swims within a school. 2. Australian Informal. a schoolteacher or student. noun (Austral, slang) 1. a schoolteacher 2. a high-school student 3. a holiday away from home in which large numbers of school leavers join together
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/ˈskuːliːz/ noun 1. (in Australia) a week when large numbers of school leavers gather together for a holiday away from home after the end of their final exams