Idiom
Christmas graduate
Meaning
A freshman who drops out of college at the end of the first semester.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He became a Christmas graduate after failing his first semester.”
“The university saw many students become Christmas graduates when the difficult final exams ended in December.”
“Although he arrived on campus with high ambitions, the academic pressure proved too great, and he left as a Christmas graduate before the spring term began.”
Examples
simple
“He became a Christmas graduate after failing his first semester.”
contextual
“The university saw many students become Christmas graduates when the difficult final exams ended in December.”
complex
“Although he arrived on campus with high ambitions, the academic pressure proved too great, and he left as a Christmas graduate before the spring term began.”
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