Idioms

schoolboy

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schoolboy error

A very simple, basic, or fundamental mistake or error. Primarily heard in UK. Thanks to a schoolboy error by their opponents' keeper, the football club will advance to the next round of the tourney. The math textbook had to be reprinted after several schoolboy errors were discovered in some of the equations.
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schoolboy humor

Immature humor. Guys, enough with the schoolboy humor. Let's try to act like adults, please.
See also: humor, schoolboy

schoolboy scotch

slang A combination of codeine and hard liquor, especially Scotch whiskey. Three people from school have already been hospitalized from OD'ing on that schoolboy scotch!
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schoolboy Scotch

n. wine. Give me a pint of that schoolboy Scotch.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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References in periodicals archive
The 24-year-old yob repeatedly asked the schoolboy about his bike as the two waited for a train at Maghull North train station, in March.
Courtney Lawes and Mark Wilson were the only non-public schoolboys among the English players in the starting 15.
MAKING THE NEWS Ben Odeje turns out for England schoolboys in 1971
He started passing his coaching badges and took up a role as head of coaching for the schoolboy players - working with Steve Cooper, who recently coached the England U17s to World Cup success.
The Emirati schoolboy was said to have been gang-raped by five friends on a Monday in Al Muhaisna area in September.
One of the schoolboys born in 2003 died at the scene.
Following a quick chat, the driver took the schoolboy to his car in the parking lot and spent some time there.
A SCHOOLBOY who disguised himself in prosthetic masks and wigs to stage brutal armed raids has been locked up for five years.
A MIDDLE-AGED man who threw a brick at the head of an innocent schoolboy has been spared time behind bars.
Schoolboy Q, Setbacks (Top Dawg Entertainment, 2010) If Kendrick Lamar is Black Hippy's brain, then Schoolboy Q is the fists.
IT WAS a case of youth verses experience in the opening race at the Revolution Bikes summer cyclo X league at Bethesda, and from the off the race developed into a battle between leading schoolboy champion Dylan Kerfoot-Robson Rhos CC and last winter's league runner-up, Chris Purt (Energy CC).
The former Celtic boss was a schoolboy international himself and is using his spare time to become Lloyds TSB Scotland Schools Football Ambassador.
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