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clever-clever
(clever-clever)
adjective
derogatory
excessively anxious to appear impressively clever or intelligent:
her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage
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clever Dick (also clever clogs)
too clever by half
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clever Dick (also clever clogs)
as artful
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as a wagonload
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of monkeys
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