"School is _through_"

[Jonathan Lighter]

ISTR "School's over" also. (Summer only? Otherwise "out.")

JL


On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> While scrolling through a list of oldies, I came across the title,
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> "Summer's Here, School Is Through"
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> 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."
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> Youneverknow.
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