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.
(..) and from thence into beauty. Our Billy wants to change, too. There's no correlation between transsexualism and violence. - Transsexuals are very passive. - Clever girl. You're so close to the way you're gonna catch him, do you realise that? No. Tell me why. After your father's murder you were (..)1991 The Silence of the Lambs
(..) We've tried to study him, but he's much too sophisticated for the standard tests. Oh, my, does he hate us! He thinks I'm his nemesis. Crawford's very clever, isn't he, using you? - What do you mean, sir? - A pretty, young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's seen a woman in eight years. (..)1991 The Silence of the Lambs