smarty pants

smarty pants

1. One who obnoxiously and frequently attempts to assert perceived superiority in intelligence; a know-it-all. Don't be such a smarty pants. You don't know everything.
2. One who makes jokes and uses sarcasm in an attempt to seem witty, but instead is deemed annoying; a smart aleck. OK, smarty pants, are you going to help me, or just stand there mocking me all night?
See also: pant, smarty
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

smarty-pants

n. a cocky person; a smart aleck. Look, smarty-pants, let’s cut the clowning around.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • doesn't know beans
  • (I) can't say as I do(, can't say as I don't)
  • all in (one's) head
  • don't bet on it
  • don't give up the ship
  • don't cry before you are hurt
  • don't ask me
  • don't ask me!
  • don't give me that story
  • don't hand me that line
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Deputy Mayor and a councillor for the Old Swan ward, Gary Millar, said: "Our attention has been brought to a number of so called 'smarty pants' comments on social media and therefore we would urge residents not to air their dirty laundry in public.
Gary Millar, Deputy Mayor and a Cllr for the Old Swan ward said: "As one of Old Swan's 3 councillors our attention has been brought to a number of so called 'smarty pants' comments on social media and therefore we would urge residents not to air their dirty laundry in public.
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When I was growing up and going to public school in Brooklyn we had a name for the kid who seemed to know everything: "Smarty-pants." The Urban Dictionary nails the definition of smarty pants as " a person who knows the word 'lul-a-bye' comes from the Saxon words, 'lut,' meaning 'to sing' and 'bye' meaning 'to sleep,' and then brags about it in the weekly email newsletter."
The 2fm presenter, 36, admitted she even gets panic attacks during the Smarty Pants skit on her Breakfast Republic radio show because of school.
When I was growing up, the expression "smarty pants" was not usually said in a complimentary way.
The campaign, called Little Miss Smarty Pants, took home silver prizes at the Fresh Awards in the proving marketing effectiveness category and also for TV or cinema commercial (including low budget).
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