teacher's pet
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
Five: Twenty years ago, as the senior prank, someone had let the biology teacher’s pet python loose.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
