Quote Originally Posted by Tweaky View Post
I had to look up your phrase, it is the motto of a school in Oxford and means “no one becomes knowledgeable over-night “.
I confess, I went to that ghastly dump, long closed, as did my father. I was taught latin by Mr Atkinson, an intimidating Victorian git we all called Snoop.

The actual school motto was Labor vincit omnia but we had the translation of both in the school song