be too clever by half

be too clever by half BrE spokento be clever, and to show that you are clever in a way that annoys other people精明过头—cleverly adv. —cleverness noun U

• painted snipe
• sweet viburnum
• autodyne circuit
• anest
• fiat money
• haematomata
• ABDs
• wobbegong
• waste steam
• statutory rapes
• -biosis
• scalelike
• crammingly
• dateline
• mock surprise / horror / indignation etc
• phantom horizon
• milk the ram (或bull)
• imposed load
• bolt upright
• stannic bromide
• synoptic weather observation
• actionists
• Tet
• monophonically
• alternating-current transmission
• bayberry
• dust explosion
• make a contribution to
• Y.B.
• low aloft
• triphthongal
• fifth columnists
• foundry proof
• reversing lights
• deblurs
• old bones
• jumpy
• bolectioned
• ergonomy
• hard on sth
• nongrammatical
• target analysis
• hot-roll
• suchness
• in one’s/the way
• semblances
• pillion
• hunting horn
• maenad
• double-spacing
• plunging breaker
• e format
• lachryma Christi
• Ambrose
• kempt
• literalizes
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• jostlement
• extrapolate
• editors
• dasyure
• adamantoblast
• heterogeneously
• disarticulation
• doyennes
• ball tearer
• JKT
• nucleoid
• short-run
• Moscow River
• dolts
• eyelet
• comancheros
• tetranychidaes
• M cell
• camera eye
• firing charge
• popularization
• scumbled
• gluttonize
• Orestes
• ammonium lineolate
• ACSR
• tubuliflorous
• wino
• after the manner of
• pick up on
• Fucales
• blowtube
• Hassid
• Pomacentridae
• revolutioner
• allow as how
• .trm
• keep ... up
• bioenvironments
• get a pass
• Group of 77
• kenafs
• get one's ass in a crack