| 词汇 | smarty-pants |
| 释义 | smarty-pants noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈsmɑː.ti.pænts/ us /ˈsmɑːr.t̬i.pænts/pluralsmarty-pants someone who wants to appear to be clever: 自作聪明的人 [ as form of address ]Okay, smarty-pants, you tell me how to do it. 好吧，自作聪明的家伙，那你告诉我怎么做呀。 Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizing patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom throw your weight aroundidiom Examples of smarty-pantssmarty-pants The bruising, brilliant genre he created -- smarty-pants self-help -- has a way of turning even its most thoughtful would-be critics into underdogs. From Slate Magazine Bogus rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copy editing and smarty-pants one-upmanship. From Slate Magazine Just the sheer busy-ness of the production at times crowds the drama's human dimension, and some of its humorous flourishes veer from cleverness into smarty-pants cuteness. From Hollywood Reporter These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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