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Smart aleck

noun
1.
An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.  Synonyms: weisenheimer, wise guy, wiseacre, wisenheimer.






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"Smart aleck" Quotes from Famous Books



... try to kill you any more. You've cornered wheat, have you? All right.... Your own wheat, my smart Aleck, will do all the ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris

... about time there were a few business changes in Green Valley, that a few business funerals would help a lot and freshen up things; that Uncle Tony was no business man, and a lot of that sort of stuff. And of course Hughey Mason, being a smart Aleck, pipes up and says, 'That's so, Uncle Tony is no business man. Why, Tom Hall says that when you find Uncle Tony's emporium locked at eleven o'clock of a winter morning you can bet your bottom dollar Uncle Tony's home ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds



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