smarty
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When she complained that the menu was too bland, her brother said, “You think you’re so smart? Well, go fix it, smarty pants,” as she wrote in her memoir.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2018
Additionally, after reading this recipe for poop emoji-shaped Peeps, my response is, "Well, good luck with that, smarty!"
From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2016
So we've asked our crack culture team to pick what you need to experience to be the well-rounded, culturally fluent smarty you want to be, and ordered them by importance.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
Why don’t you write a column about that, smarty pants?
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
You don’t have to be so smarty when you talk to me.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
Ms Nicklas, who works in north Wales, said before her surgery she was "taking laxatives like they were smarties" but "still struggling to go to the toilet".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
What happens is a version of what former philosophy students and debate-happy internet smarties will recognize as the Trolley Problem, a chestnut of hypothetical ethical disputation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Here’s how it works: Said music smarties sent us lists of their top 10 Washington albums of 2021, ranked or unranked.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
There are those, like the smarties over at FiveThirtyEight and elsewhere who have tried to control for the variables you describe between elections or sporting events.
From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2020
One of them swell silk smarties got at me when I was in the hospital with the fever.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips
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