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smart alec
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smart alec smart arse (Informal)
noun
know-all (informal), wise guy (informal), clever-clogs (informal), clever Dick (informal), smarty pants (informal), smartarse (slang), smarty boots (informal) Don't be such a smart alec. All right then, if you're such a smart arse, have you got any better ideas?
adjective
cocky, arrogant, conceited, brash, swaggering, egotistical, cocksure, overconfident, swollen-headed, full of yourself a fortyish smart-alec TV reporter I can do without your smart-arse comments, thank you.
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CAPTION(S): ANOTHER SMART ALEX McLeish is adopting Fergie's ideas; OLD PALS McLeish (right) with Fergie at Aberdeen in 1985
SQUEAKY BRUM TIME; Eck's Fergie plan to clinch a silver lining Sheff ... by The Mirror (London, England)
A SMART Alex Griffiths hat-trick gave Woolton Panthers (Jordan Stevenson, James Tierney) a 5-3 win over Springwood in the only under 12s game to survive the weather.
Smart Alex is Panthers star; MERSEYSIDE & HALEWOOD by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
But if there is, I'd urge smart Alex to think long and hard before he decides on his next move.
Football: We'll be Eckstatic if McLeish stays on as gaffer by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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