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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



... "Teacher's pet," whispered the boy across the aisle, but Tabitha was soaring in the realms of bliss and the teacher's smile, so she did not hear or care what the others might say. The world was growing very bright and she was finding how ...
— Tabitha at Ivy Hall • Ruth Alberta Brown

... he has every consideration from his teachers and receives from his companions the opprobious nickname of "Teacher's Pet." He gains a reward, perhaps a medal, and at the annual distribution of prizes the speech-makers point to the coming legislators and successful men of business in a manner which conveys to this scholar the idea that the one thing to live for is to gain an exalted position in the world. This would ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll



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