sharp cookie

sharp cookie

A particularly smart, witty, or clever person. Dan: "I'm having a heck of a time doing my taxes, I just don't understand it at all." Steve: "You should get in touch with my uncle, he's one sharp cookie!" We're always looking to hire sharp cookies like you.
See also: cookie, sharp
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (as) smart as paint
  • a heck of a
  • heck of a
  • clever clogs
  • clog
  • heck of a lot of
  • clever boots
  • (as) clever as a wagonload of monkeys
  • clever
  • what the heck
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She's a real street-wise sharp cookie who knows exactly what she wants."
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Rebus may have problems with whisky and the kind of diet that drives doctors to despair, but he's a sharp cookie when it comes to unravelling crimes.
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"I've found him to be an honest and quite sharp cookie, which I was expecting from the upbringing he has had.
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"There's no question he's a sharp cookie and he's determined to get the results he requires one way or another so he can go to university to study forensic science.
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But one of them works wonders for Wally, transforming him from bog-standard ruminant into a sharp cookie with the mental firepower to outwit the police, the Army, his white-coat wearing creators and a band of international terrorists.
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And it inspires the headline of the season from one sharp cookie at the old Currant Bun.
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