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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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However, on the basis that all the world loathes a smart arse, may I just point out that sending a mere boy like Ashforth out to grab a grand was a tactical error on behalf of the Post, when inestimable judges such as myself were darkening Plumpton's doors for the first time since 1986.
Going gets tough but too early for tough to get going by The Racing Post (London, England)
And I always end up stuck on the train back into town next to the smart arse who is boasting to the entire cabin how he's leaving the course with so much more cash than he went in with.
A dancing dork has short odds; SIX in the City by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
THERE'S nothing I like better than being a smart arse.
I've been busy watching horror films about naked chickens; FARM & ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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