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Teacher's pet   /tˈitʃərz pɛt/   Listen
Teacher's pet

noun
1.
The teacher's favorite student.






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"Teacher's pet" Quotes from Famous Books



... first supper I could find nothing to do or no one to talk to, so back I went to work—feeling a good deal like teacher's pet. About four o'clock it was my business to tell Schmitz what supplies we were out of and what and how much we'd need for supper. When I got back from supper there were always trays of food to be put in the ice chest, salads to be fixed, blackberries to dish out, celery to wash, and the like. ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... of a good thing never lets up on it. His favorite idea is produced on all occasions. It may be excellent in its way, but he sings its praises till we turn against it as we used to do in the Fourth Reader Class, when we all with one accord turned against "Teacher's Pet." Teacher's Pet might be dowered with all the virtues, but we of the commonality would have none of them. We chose to scoff at an excellence that ...
— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers



Words linked to "Teacher's pet" :   ducky, pet, favorite, darling, deary, favourite, dearie



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