school-leaver
/ˈskuːlliːvə
/noun British
A young person who is about to leave or has just left school.While it is true that the proportion of school-leavers who enter higher education now is closer to 50% than the figure under 10% when Lord Patten was at Oxford, the issue of class distinction clearly remains unresolved....
- Year after year, the UK's elite universities bemoan the lack of knowledge and rigour among their intake of straight-A school-leavers.
- Most British school-leavers don't even possess the basic facts.
- you can't make bricks without straw
- you can't (or can) talk (you shouldn't or should talk)
- you can't put an old head on young shoulders
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't win them all (or win some, lose some)
- you could have fooled me!
- you could have knocked me (or her, him, etc.) down with a feather
- you couldn't make it up
- you'd
- you don't say (or you don't say so)!
- Youghiogheny River
- you have no idea
- you haven't lived!
- youing
- you know
- you know something (or what)?
- you-know-who (or you-know-what)
- you'll
- you may (or might) as well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- you must be (or have to be) joking
- you must be (or have to be) kidding
- you name it
- you never know
- young
- young adult