goody-goody

goody-goody

1. noun Someone who exclusively follows the rules and caters to authority figures; a teacher's pet. Jill's classmates called her a goody-goody after she volunteered to supervise the class while the teacher was away.
2. adjective Self-righteous or sanctimonious. Forget your goody-goody rules and go out on a school night for once!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a ˈgoody-goody

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a goody ˈtwo-shoes

(informal, disapproving) a person who behaves very well to please people in authority such as parents or teachers: Don’t be such a goody-goody! He’s a real goody two-shoes. He’d never do anything that might get him into trouble.
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a goody-goody
  • goody
  • goody gumdrops
  • teacher's pet
  • a big tent
  • bummer
  • angle
  • angling
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high
References in periodicals archive
As debuts go, this was a little simplistic in terms of the goody-goody nature of the newcomer who has to fight for a fair hearing from the outset and comes up trumps on his first try.
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Until now she has maintained a goody-goody girl image in Hollywood, but in this movie she swears, cracks dirty jokes and tries to blackmail her colleague into sleeping with her.
The Arsenal academics have often presented a goody-goody image that has been easy to overcome.
Words such as really-really, very-very, much much, too-too, awfully-awfully, dark-dark, beautiful-beautiful, horrible-horrible, wonderful-wonderful, enormous-enormous, slowly-slowly, goody-goody, quietly-quietly, et cetera (hardly English).
Inquisitive Jared hits things when he gets angry, while goody-goody Simon declares, "I don't do conflict".
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But their good work is undone by the show's "So what?" premise and some appalling "supporting" characters, including the goody-goody young parents who live down the road and a colleague of Gary's who seems to think he's Mick Jagger.
And that's just Katy Bartrop, who doubles her angelic goody-goody Narrator with a foxy weasel.
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Nice guys portrayed in the best possible light, like goody-goody Derek on EastEnders.
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