"School is _through_"

[Joel S. Berson]

I recall "school's through".  And also Jon's "school's over".  Both 
definitely with reference to the summer vacation, and not other 
outages.  Such as "school's out" (at 4 PM; for the day, etc.).

NYC.

Joel

At 7/15/2014 08:00 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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