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  What it means

  Literally “high school from the back, a museum from the front.” A cheeky, slightly mean way to describe an older person who dresses or has a silhouette like a teenager from behind, but looks their age from the front.

  Vocabulary

  • liceum — high school
  • muzeum — museum

  Grammar note

  Rhyming structure.

  Cultural context

  Very common in casual, observational humor.

  Intermediate

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