释义 |
ˈclever-ˈclever, a. [Reduplicated from clever a.; cf. pretty-pretty, etc.] Anxious to be considered clever; over-clever. Hence ˈclever-ˈcleverness.
1896G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Mar. (1965) 617 A good melodrama is a more difficult thing to write than all this clever-clever comedy. 1921C. Dane Bill of Divorcement iii. 75 Don't be clever-clever, old thing. 1946Koestler Thieves in Night i. vi. 43 Had to show off all the time..what clever-clever fellows they were. 1957D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 215 We are apt to suffer from the occupational malady of clever-cleverness. |