clever remark
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One clever remark read, “My favorite Star Wars memory would have to be the time Disney tried to lay legal claim to every tweet on Twitter that used a particular hashtag.”
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2020
You don't at all resemble all of us; you know everything; for everything that turns up you have a good, clever remark ...
From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
“I'm laughing that you should have made a clever remark just now about Smerdyakov's belief in the existence of two saints who could move mountains.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Auber said: "You must not forget that Rochefort would rather sell his soul than lose an occasion to make a clever remark."
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
She nicknamed me "Tow-head" in allusion to my light hair, and had always some clever remark to make at my expense.
From The Fortunes of Philippa A School Story by Brazil, Angela
