Don't you start getting 'clever' [=('US') 'fresh'] with me! [=don't speak to me in a disrespectful way]
For someone who hasn't been 'feeling too clever' lately, he just played a great round of golf.
A few 'clever' [='smart, bright'] students have started a business recycling old computers.
(..) Always imagined it's a pretty tough job, though, acting. - The wages are a scandal, aren't they ? - They can be. l see friends from university-- clever chaps. Been in the business longer than you. They're scraping by on seven, eight thousand a year. You know, it's no life. (..)1999 Notting Hill