teacher's pet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of teacher's pet
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Connie is essentially power-hungry teacher’s pet Tracy Flick from “Election,” if she grew up to become an Olympic race-walking champion who has struggled with infertility.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021
“I was the teacher’s pet, and Lance was the funniest guy in the room,” said Hoffman, who played keyboards in the band.
From New York Times • May 31, 2021
The next morning, Julio Barrosso, the teacher’s pet, was gone from the second-grade classroom.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019
And in various essays throughout her autobiographical collection, “My Squirrel Days,” Kemper reveals herself to be a “carefree, happy-go-lucky sweetie”; a “polite teacher’s pet from the Midwest”; and “chatty and pony-like.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2018
She had been in school but half a day when she knew that she would never be a teacher’s pet.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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