learning cottage n. a residential trailer (British ‘caravan’; American ‘mobile home’) used as a temporary or portable classroom. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
learning cottage n.— «Photo Fifth-graders in Erica Allen’s class at Lockheed Elementary School place their book bags into plastic bins outside their “trailer,” which has been dubbed a “learning cottage...
learning cottage n.— «Somehow, trailer (be it on a farm, or in a public school parking lot) just seems to lack esteemable associations. So now they’ve coined the term “learning cottage” to soften up the blow…at the same...
matchbook college n. a (real or figurative) school of higher learning with low academic standards. Also matchbook university. Etymological Note: From the supposed tendency of such a school to advertise on matchbook covers. Sometimes capitalized as...
matchbook college n.— «County funds have also paid for “internet campuses” that offer learning programs to “fit your learning style and budget” as well as online multiple choice exams that lead to a college degree...
standfirst n.— «Midway through a communications degree, she landed a job on the Oz teen bible, Dolly, and gave up “spending six weeks learning how to write a standfirst” in favour of doing the job for real.» —“It will fit...