apple-polisher

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• apple\ polisher — • apple polisher • apple polishing See: polish the apple …   Словарь американских идиом

• apple polisher — ☆ apple polisher n. Slang a person who curries favor by gifts, flattery, etc., as a child bringing his teacher an apple * * * …   Universalium

• apple polisher — ☆ apple polisher n. Slang a person who curries favor by gifts, flattery, etc., as a child bringing his teacher an apple …   English World dictionary

• apple polisher — apple .polisher n AmE spoken someone who tries to gain something, become popular etc by praising or helping someone else without being sincere …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• apple-polisher — n. a flatterer. □ Doesn’t that wimpy apple polisher know how stupid he looks? □ Everybody at the office seems to be an apple polisher but me …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• apple polisher — ;[apple polishing] See: POLISH THE APPLE …   Dictionary of American idioms

• apple polisher — ;[apple polishing] See: POLISH THE APPLE …   Dictionary of American idioms

• apple-polisher — n a flatterer, someone who curries favour. The term comes from the image of the ingratiating pupil who polishes an apple carefully before presenting it to a teacher. The tradition of an apple for the teacher was really practised in rural USA… …   Contemporary slang

• apple-polisher — noun see apple polish …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• apple-polisher — noun A person who apple polishes …   Wiktionary

• apple polisher — noun someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self respect • Syn: ↑bootlicker, ↑fawner, ↑groveller, ↑groveler, ↑truckler • Derivationally related forms: ↑truckle (for …   Useful english dictionary