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clever dick
noun- a clever, rather too clever, person UK, 1887
Derisive or sarcastic in use. - Well, if you must know, Mr Clever Dick, it was to teach Frank and Joe a lesson. — Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, 22 April 1958
- A tax-man hates a clever dick–and that’s what you are, Arthur. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 125, 1984
- Lewis scrambled up, his face nearly purple with embarrassment and anger. “You’re the clever-dick, aren’t you!” — Greg Iles, Black Cross, p. 174, 1995
- Or would some clever-dick theorist simply redefine the strike as an alternative form of conceptual creativity and have done with it? — Guardian, 8 October 2002
- a brick UK
Rhyming slang. - — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, 1992
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