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单词 smarty-pants
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Definition of smarty-pants in English:

smarty-pants

(British smarty-boots)
noun
  • another term for smarty (sense 1)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A few years ago, some smarty-pants college professor fooled a bunch of stupid college professors, by publishing a bunch of PC-babble gibberish (quite literally, gibberish) and getting it praised by his colleagues.
    • Try it out on the office know-it-all, or the smarty-pants next door.
    • But none of those smarty-pants said a word about what all this means to us, the consumers.
    • The smarty-pants amongst you will no doubt have found that one a breeze as well.
    • Maybe if you and your brother hadn't been such smarty-pants you could have graduated.
    • Why else would the English language concoct such a condescending term for a group of obvious smarty-pants?
    • The truth is, though, despite their smarty-pants exteriors, most members of the office park set don't know the first thing about ground wires.
    • Let's say your $10,000 turns into $6,000, because you bought stock in a Texas oil company the day before some smarty-pants scientist announced he'd figured out how to make cold fusion work.
    • If you're a smarty-pants, you can arrange the songs according to how you think they flow best together, but the simplest route is to assemble them in the order in which they were recorded.
    • Guys see me as a goodie-goodie and a smarty-pants.
    • I loved being a smarty-pants and was pretty smug about it.
    • They're going to be smarty-pants, they're going to be on the ball.
    • For I, being the smarty-pants that I am, had grabbed my bag and stomped down the hall towards the room that I went through earlier.
    • It does no good in our age of specialization and fragmentation to be a know-it-all smarty-pants, especially if some of that knowledge is at times sadly so superficial.
    • So these smarty-pants band together in secret, subtly veiling their high-minded leanings under a veneer of pretension - they'll hint at their summer reading lists, but never let you see what's on it.
    • The idea that such assimilation counteracts true independence doesn't occur to a 10-year-old immigrant smarty-pants.
    • But this service takes time, and I am not a smarty-pants code geek who can automate such tasks.
    • To every smarty-pants who ever had to stifle her chuckles when overhearing some ninny explain that the reason the sky is blue is because it's reflecting the colour of the ocean, welcome home.
    • If you are a smarty-pants or played with calculators instead of action figures when you were a kid, then you'll do just fine with this movie.
    • There are few occupations where it pays to be a smarty-pants, and soldiering isn't one of them.
 
 

Definition of smarty-pants in US English:

smarty-pants

nounˈsmärdē ˌpantsˈsmɑrdi ˌpænts
  • another term for smarty (sense 1)
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But this service takes time, and I am not a smarty-pants code geek who can automate such tasks.
    • I loved being a smarty-pants and was pretty smug about it.
    • It does no good in our age of specialization and fragmentation to be a know-it-all smarty-pants, especially if some of that knowledge is at times sadly so superficial.
    • If you're a smarty-pants, you can arrange the songs according to how you think they flow best together, but the simplest route is to assemble them in the order in which they were recorded.
    • To every smarty-pants who ever had to stifle her chuckles when overhearing some ninny explain that the reason the sky is blue is because it's reflecting the colour of the ocean, welcome home.
    • So these smarty-pants band together in secret, subtly veiling their high-minded leanings under a veneer of pretension - they'll hint at their summer reading lists, but never let you see what's on it.
    • Try it out on the office know-it-all, or the smarty-pants next door.
    • They're going to be smarty-pants, they're going to be on the ball.
    • The idea that such assimilation counteracts true independence doesn't occur to a 10-year-old immigrant smarty-pants.
    • A few years ago, some smarty-pants college professor fooled a bunch of stupid college professors, by publishing a bunch of PC-babble gibberish (quite literally, gibberish) and getting it praised by his colleagues.
    • Maybe if you and your brother hadn't been such smarty-pants you could have graduated.
    • There are few occupations where it pays to be a smarty-pants, and soldiering isn't one of them.
    • If you are a smarty-pants or played with calculators instead of action figures when you were a kid, then you'll do just fine with this movie.
    • Let's say your $10,000 turns into $6,000, because you bought stock in a Texas oil company the day before some smarty-pants scientist announced he'd figured out how to make cold fusion work.
    • For I, being the smarty-pants that I am, had grabbed my bag and stomped down the hall towards the room that I went through earlier.
    • Guys see me as a goodie-goodie and a smarty-pants.
    • The smarty-pants amongst you will no doubt have found that one a breeze as well.
    • The truth is, though, despite their smarty-pants exteriors, most members of the office park set don't know the first thing about ground wires.
    • But none of those smarty-pants said a word about what all this means to us, the consumers.
    • Why else would the English language concoct such a condescending term for a group of obvious smarty-pants?
 
 
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