"School is _through_"

[Wilson Gray]

While scrolling through a list of oldies, I came across the title,

"Summer's Here, School Is Through"

Though I'm a "through" -speaker - I get through with whatever, I'm through
with a book that I've just got through reading, the work is through, the
meal is through, etc. - I've never heard or read "*school* is through"
before.

"School is through"? Kinda not quite right. About five minutes of Googling
turned up other oldies entitled "Now That School Is Through" and simply
"School Is Through," and the sentence,

"When the Sabbath school is through, you meet a great many people in
the meeting
house"

from 1834.

Heretofore, I'd been familiar only with,

"School is out."

Youneverknow.
-- 
-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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