"Teacher (noun)—a person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them” is a jocular definition that has been printed on posters. The definition first appeared on the website Grouchy Rabbit in March 2011.
Grouchy Rabbit
Teacher (noun) - A person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them.
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Letian
@letianK
Definitions: Teacher (noun) - A person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them. http://tumblr.com/xes1s2m3p0
4:07 AM - 15 Mar 2011
Urban Dictionary
Teacher
A person that helps you solve problems you’d never have without them.
(Teacher) Write this 100 times!
(Student) ok..
(Teacher) Now you know.
by OneRaven February 08, 2012
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Student Problems
@FactsOfSchool
Teacher: a person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them.
12:28 PM - 18 Sep 2013
The Solution News (TSN)
WORD WEDNESDAY: TEACHER
By TSN News | Entertainment, Humor, Word of the Day | 29 April 2015
TEACHER: A PERSON WHO HELPS YOU SOLVE PROBLEMS YOU’D NEVER HAVE WITHOUT THEM.
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~Carlos-kun~
@AtelierNemesis
Teacher(noun) - a Person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them.
7:16 AM - 15 Jul 2015
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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