Learn English – term I can use for a boss’s favorite employee

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Over dinner tonight, one of the guests was describing herself as her boss's favorite employee, and asked for a term to describe this. As the only guest who spoke English as a first language, the question fell on me, but I could not think of any such term. Is there one? It would be similar to "teacher's pet" to describe a teacher's favorite student, but in the professional realm. "Boss's pet" just doesn't seem to fit.

Best Answer

"Blue-eyed boy" is an idiomatic term used to describe "a person highly regarded by someone and treated with special favour".

... the problem that managers may favour their blue-eyed boys

2004, Jonathan Stroud, The Golem's Eye,

"Keep it up, Mandrake," he said. "Just keep it up. You may be the Prime Minister's blue-eyed boy now, but how long's that going to last if you don't deliver?"