cluey
/ˈkluːi/adjective (cluier, cluiest) Australian informal
Wise, knowledgeable, or aware: the article is easily comprehensible by a cluey high-schooler we are cluey enough to know that the system survives only with huge subsidies...
- We thought we were kind of cluey in the business.
- I mustn't argue with someone who's young enough to be cluey about childish arguments.
- It's a quiet time of the year, and a cluey bar manager should approach us with a deal of some sort.
Origin
1960s: from clue, probably by analogy with clueless.
- get on someone's tits
- get on someone's wick
- get on to
- get on top of
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on