Timeline for "move up the school" meaning
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| S Jul 22, 2019 at 6:46 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 5:39 | comment | added | Andrew | @dan Yes; however I'm American so I can't speak for what life is like in a typical British boarding school on which "Harry Potter" is based. As others have said, there may actually be some physical change in location from year to year, implying "movement". | |
| Jul 22, 2019 at 1:20 | comment | added | alephzero | @dan In the real-world version of this type of school in the UK, the students often physically "move" to a different set of classrooms and a different set of teachers each year. They also "move" to different accommodation (particularly, different dormitories) in the boarding parts of the school. Obviously this doesn't apply to everything, e.g. at Hogwarts there is only one dining hall for all students, but it explains the use of the word. | |
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| Jul 22, 2019 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1153092501206720518 | ||
| Jul 21, 2019 at 22:33 | comment | added | dan | @Andrew So, 'school' here refers to school years? | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 22:26 | vote | accept | dan | ||
| Jul 21, 2019 at 21:18 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 21, 2019 at 17:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @dan: It's much the same as moved up (through) the ranks (e.g. - within the armed forces), where as that link shows, the modern tendency (BrE and AmE) is increasingly to drop the "unnecessary" preposition completely. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 15:49 | comment | added | Andrew | @dan The phrase is common, but using it to describe going from one school year to the next seems particularly British. I think "advance" might be more common in the U.S., and possibly elsewhere. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 14:57 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 13:58 | comment | added | dan | @FumbleFingers Is it a common phrase? It seems to me that As he moved up in the school makes more sense. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 13:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | No - it's just a reference to the passing of time. He started as a first-year student, then "moved up" to year two, year three, etc. | |
| Jul 21, 2019 at 13:10 | history | asked | dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |