teacher's pet

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   the teacher's favorite student

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Questions about teacher's pet

What does teacher's pet mean?

teacher's pet means "the teacher's favorite student".

Is teacher's pet a common word?

teacher's pet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.