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View synonyms for apple polisher

apple polisher

noun

  1. informal.
    a sycophant; toady
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

see polish the apple .
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Example Sentences

The title character of “Luce” is introduced as a star student and first-rate apple polisher.

Among Beck’s qualities: he’s young, malleable, fleet, accurate, gung ho, and an apple polisher.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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