Today Teresa talks about the expression goody-goody. This idiom is of the straight-up repeated type. It is used to describe a person who behaves extremely well in order to please a superior, a toady or lackey, a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage. I think you can hear the word good in there, so the repetition of good in this way goody-goody is really make it seem like the person is too good.

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This episode was recorded on May 18, 2021.