wise guy

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In 2012, McGrath won the Tony for best actor in a featured musical role playing wise guy Cookie McGee in “Nice Work If You Can Get It” starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2023

Locke has Charlie’s gentle deportment but with the soft edge of a cool-kid wise guy.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Some wise guy would have tossed in toilet paper.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2021

Brown had gone from wise guy to wise man, from skinflint to a bit of a spendthrift; the bullet train caught his eye and his imagination, though it also courted controversy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2020

The driver was sort of a wise guy.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger