| 单词 | too clever by half |
| 释义 | too clever by halftoo clever by half 1 INTELLIGENT British EnglishBrE spoken to be clever, and to show that you are clever in a way that annoys other people 精明过头 Examples from the Corpus be too clever by half• Phil's good at thinking up excuses for his behaviour - he's too clever by half. → be too clever by half at clever(2) 2 British EnglishBrE informalANNOY very clever, rich etc in an annoying way 聪明/富有/好等过了头 That boy’s too arrogant by half. 那个男孩太傲慢了。 Examples from the Corpus too clever/rich/good etc by half• The arithmetic can not be faulted - and may well be judged too clever by half. → too clever/rich/good etc by half at half2(6) |
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