| 词汇 | apple-polisher |
| 词源 | apple-polisher. The traditional practice of a student giving teacher a bright, shiny apple is the source for this expression for a sycophant, the Americanism being first recorded in 1928. The synonym sycophant interestingly has its origins in another fruit, figs. |
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