Apple Polisher

• 作者: 杨红
• 来源期刊: 语言教育
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: APPLE PHRASE COMES APPLE leave listening POLISHING SOMEONE GIVING hoped
• 年，卷（期）: yyjy_1995,（12）
• 页码范围: 31-32
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: H319.4

摘要

<正> An“apple polisher” is one who gives gifts to win friendship orspecial treatment.It is not exactly a bribe but is is close to it.“Apple-polishing”is as old as human society,but the phrase it-self is recent,about 50 years old.It comes from the schoolroom.For a long time,some schooboys would leave a shiny apple on