apple-polisher
noun North American informal
A toady.The reporters, shooting spitballs from the back of the class, regarded her as a preening apple-polisher....
- Now, I know what you're thinking - ‘y'know, he's pretty moody sometimes too, so why should I care about these apple-polishers?’
- I had something close to a 4.0 in my major, and I was certainly no apple-polisher; my priorities lay more in figuring out exactly how little one had to do to earn an A.
Derivatives
apple-polishing
- There was no apple-polishing, no flattering the Governor.
- Another way that is just as effective as apple-polishing is flattery, giving someone high praise, telling him how good he looks, or how well he speaks, or how wise he is.
- Through this formula, you can see that apple polishing establishes a faulty logical connection.