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词汇 apple polisher
释义
idiomapple polisher especially AmEespecially AmEsomeone who is always trying to impress or be nice to important or powerful people in order to gain an advantageoften used in business and politics:Rommel regularly sent apple polishers to Berlin to make sure Adolf Hitler knew of his exploits.Every office has its apple polisher, whose views cannot be trusted to be his or her own.

apple polisher

A flatterer. (Apples are a typical gift for teachers.) That kid is always quick to help the teacher with any little thing—what an apple polisher!

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Fig. a flatterer. Doesn't that wimpy apple-polisher know how stupid he looks? Everybody at my office seems to be an apple-polisher but me.

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n. a flatterer. Everybody at the office seems to be an apple-polisher but me.
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