Set aside the "strict, harsh, cruel" sense, expressed in the name of Severus Snape, the mean schoolteacher in the Harry Potter series.
Dropping the euphemisms, what this says is that by increasing unemployment, particularly of "educated, skilled workers" — in case you're wondering, that mainly means schoolteachers — we can drive down wages, which would encourage hiring.
By choosing to live in rural Vermont, and without the costs of raising children, Mr. Andrews and his wife, Stephanie, a former schoolteacher, lived below their means, thereby saving enough for early retirement and lifelong world travel.
Another example is "Sirs", used to mean "schoolteachers", even for women in, say, primary schools.
That means many workers such as schoolteachers are priced out or have to devote an outsized portion of their salaries to rent, he said.
Their parents have a party; their friends, who are all schoolteachers and all never meant to be schoolteachers, all come.
The son of two schoolteachers, Mr. Murphy was not meant to be an actor.
The Yellow Ticket (1931) was set in tsarist Russia; to visit her imprisoned father, a Jewish schoolteacher (Elissa Landi) must obtain a yellow ticket meant for prostitutes so as to circumvent a decree against travel by Jews.
Warren, a onetime schoolteacher who became a professor, is still more schoolmarmy than professorial — and I mean that in a good way.
Sumner Redstones second wife, Paula Fortunato, a schoolteacher 40 years his junior, signed a prenup reportedly giving her $1 million per year of marriage, which meant she would have gotten only $5 million in October when the pair divorced after five years.
