[Ads-l] "go to school on"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Only 20 years, and still in quotes, but it confirms previous use in a
golfing context:

He "went to school on" the other golfer's shot. Good players do it all the
time.
books.google.com/books?isbn=0671892584
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Why Smart People Do Dumb Things: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral
Economics
Mortimer Feinberg, John J. Tarrant
Simon and Schuster, 1995



DanG

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:38 PM, David Daniel <david at coarsecourses.com>
wrote:

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> Andy Cuomo must be a golfer. "Go to school on" = "learn something from" is
> a
> common and old golfing term (well, I can attest to 60 years or so of use,
> if
> that counts as old).
> DAD
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> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      "go to school on"
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> 'To learn from':
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> Andy Cuomo to NYC public health official:
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> "So did you go to school on what happened in Dallas?"
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> It's been around for at least a year or so.
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> JL
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