have smarts

Example Sentences

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“My mom says to me, like, ‘You just have to have smarts and be strategic in the decisions that you make,’ ” she said.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2014

Dispatches, Lighthearted but Exacting, From the Front Lines The war correspondent heroines of the 1946 play “Love Goes to Press” have smarts and bravado and glamour.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2012