teacher's pet
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of teacher's pet
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Amerie was "super-outgoing" and a "teacher's pet", she added.
From BBC • May 25, 2022
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 consciously learned and performed my race,” he writes, “like a teacher’s pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.”
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2019
The next morning, Julio Barrosso, the teacher’s pet, was gone from the second-grade classroom.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2019
Kids at school had called me a teacher’s pet before, but I’d never had anyone say anything about my clothes being old-fashioned.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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