too clever

To square these wants he may therefore have been a bit too clever for his own good.

I thought of it the minute I saw the scratches on her arm, but it's too random and too clever for the brother.

All this may sound too clever by half to some ears, as if linguistic sleight-of-hand can somehow overcome deep disagreements.

"People are always too clever with their elder children; they try to do something exceptional with them, " said the visitor.

It is the quiet predator that grows by buying all or parts of those firms that are stupid enough, or too clever-by-half enough, to fail.

He is a man of few words, but it comes to playing computer games, he is too clever for his classmates.

He is a man of few words, but when it comes to playing a computer games, he is far too clever for his classmates.

Yet even the act of retrieving an item can be rather complex if you try to be too clever with multi-threading logic.

The risk is that, in trying to be too clever, investors merely outwit themselves.

Lady Lucas was a very good kind of woman, not too clever to be a valuable neighbour to Mrs. Bennet.

a: he thought he could get mr. green's money in his pocket but he lost all, he was too clever by half.

I hope that as you swim in the sea of the market economy you will not become too clever as to consider making profits only.

Don't try to be too clever with Fred, If he thinks you're fucking him around, he'll clobber you.

There is a Tibetan saying: "If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely. "

He knew that Buck was the problem, but Buck was too clever for him and Franois never saw him actually starting a fight.

MIGHT the European debt "deal" on October 27th turn out to be too clever for its own good?

He is too clever not to see that.

The manager is too clever not to have understood what you meant.

Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers. designers.

Politicians have to learn to play down to the voters, so that they seem to be ordinary people and not someone too clever and untrustworthy.

when talking about the art of doing business , this leader said : " some businessmen are too clever to be wise" .

Man are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers.

Men are too clever to let themselves be cheated by fashion designers.

His belief that he was too clever to be caught in his wrongdoing was absurd.

Tom's too clever. He won't believe such a thing.

His belief that he was too clever to be caught in his wrong doings was absurd.

He is too clever not to understand this.

"By going for one name, we missed the majority of information mankind knows about that plant, which isn't too clever, " said Paton.

You're far too clever to have done that.

to be too clever. Sometimes you overreach yourself.

re far too clever to have done that.

its financial engineering is too clever by half and vulnerable to unintended consequences.

There is a saying that the common people are too clever to be fooled by crooks.

You can't fool him; he's much too clever for that.

He was too clever a man to be bluffed.

Xiao Ming is too clever not to avoid such mistakes.

That was the price he paid for being too clever.

Fish is too clever to be caught with chaff.

The boy is too clever not to work out this maths problem.

The most popular fake-question is not dumb but too-clever-by-half.

But the cartels proved far too clever for the regulators.

but Buck was too clever for him and Francois never saw him actually starting a fight.

The boy was too clever not to understand what the teacher said.

She's too clever to fall into the trap of doing any hard work.

Mary is too clever not to believe him.

But not one of them could bring Buck down; he was too quick, too strong, too clever for them all.

She is too clever to let herself be cheated by the boy's words.

michael was too clever and intelligent for me .

I know what I want to do but I can't always get there. The memory is there but the function is not too clever!

Now, this solution feels too clever by half.

My father was of the firm opinion that, if girls got too clever, they'd find it hard to get married.

But this might prove too clever by half.

Sheila was too clever to believe Ted's flattery.

You're too clever for me. I can't keep up.

That boy of yours is too clever by half.

He was too clever to give himself away.

He's too clever by half , if you ask me.

But don't be too clever. Faced with a know-all, many people keep quiet because they see no point in continuing.

He was too clever for us, he outwitted us.

My son is too clever! !

He was too clever for me.

We thought they were too clever to learn English well.

He is too clever by half.

Tip 6: Don't be too clever by half.

He was too clever for us.

How did you get so smart? 18. You're too clever.

You are too clever not to learn English well.

Is this dangerous enemy too clever and grows too fast, or are we not clever enough and not clean enough?

he's too clever a politician to say a thing like that in public

And we tryin' to hold it all together but the devil is too clever so

he was too clever for ( ie he outwitted ) us