clever

Definition

  • adjective: intelligent and able to learn things quickly
  • adjective: skillful or adroit in using the hands or body
  • often used in a joking or ironic way to describe a foolish idea, action, etc.
  • synonyms: nimble, smart, expert

Examples

  • 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.

Movie quotes

  • (..) - The good thing of this is to bet everything and that all go to hence. - Do you want to play? No. - Do you need pounds? - Those thousand pounds need them clever. That you think of all this? I like all this. - Is there some place where he/she can acquire hunt books? you should speak to it with (..)
    2007 Into the Wild
  • (..) world they were increased. Almost all them. The Apartheid in the South African society. The civil confrontations and the crisis of food in Africa. Clever boy my brother! For Julio's end not we had had news of him. My parents would become annoying. Chris was never here, so, (..)
    2007 Into the Wild