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Englishuser Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

sport one's oak

Hello,

At what universities is the phrase to sport one's oak most commonly heard?
  

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Apparently and Cambridge and Oxford.

See: www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-spo2.htm
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Hi,

It's not a common phrase at Oxford, definitely old-fashioned.

By convention, if you closed the outer door you indicated that you wanted to be left undisturbed, say because you were giving a tutorial. Or, perhaps more commonly, if you were entertaining a member of the opposite ***.

Best wishes, Clive

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