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| 词汇 | be too clever by half |
| 释义 | Idiom be too clever by half British to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people.At school he had a reputation for arrogance. 'Too clever by half' was how one former teacher described him. be too clever by halfTo be too contrived or arrogant in one's cleverness or intelligence, to the point of being irritating to others. Primarily heard in UK. I think every adolescent goes through a stage of being too clever by half, thinking of themselves as the only person who has things really figured out. The phones people use these days are all too clever by half—I can barely even use them to make phone calls! |
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