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
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
He would say that the whole hat trade of London was disorganised by the news that a clever remark had been made by a young M. P. on the subject of the imports of Jamaica.
From Varied Types by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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)
I made what I considered a very clever remark: “Without an original there can be no imitation.”
From Diary of a Nobody by Grossmith, George
