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1too clever for your own good — too clever/nice/generous/etc for your own good phrase so clever nice generous etc that it is a disadvantage instead of an advantage Alex is a little bit too clever for his own good. Thesaurus: words used to describe someone s personalityhyponym …
2too clever by half — informal annoyingly proud of one s cleverness, and liable to overreach oneself. → clever …
3not feel too clever — not feel/look/too clever british informal phrase to feel or look ill Thesaurus: to feel or be illsynonym Main entry: clever …
4not look too clever — not feel/look/too clever british informal phrase to feel or look ill Thesaurus: to feel or be illsynonym Main entry: clever …
5be too clever by half — British to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people. At school he had a reputation for arrogance. Too clever by half was how one former teacher described him …
6too clever by half — British informal, showing disapproval very confident about your intelligence and skills in a way that annoys people …
7too clever by half — …
8clever — 1 *intelligent, quick witted, brilliant, bright, smart, alert, knowing Analogous words: *quick, apt, ready, prompt: *versatile, all around, many sided: capable, competent, *able: *sharp, keen, acute Antonyms: du …
9too nice for your own good — too clever/nice/generous/etc for your own good phrase so clever nice generous etc that it is a disadvantage instead of an advantage Alex is a little bit too clever for his own good. Thesaurus: words used to describe someone s personalityhyponym …
10too generous for your own good — too clever/nice/generous/etc for your own good phrase so clever nice generous etc that it is a disadvantage instead of an advantage Alex is a little bit too clever for his own good. Thesaurus: words used to describe someone s personalityhyponym …
