Mods
/mɒdz
/plural noun informal
The Moderations examination at Oxford University.It's also, conversely, the time for exams, removing finalists and most first years sitting Mods and Prelims....
- I am now in possession, instead, of a polite letter informing anyone ‘whom it may concern’ that I'm a student of the university, and listing my Mods results among other things.
- With Mods at the end of Hilary Term, we would have to do the work; we can't afford to get behind.
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road