smarty
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When she complained that the menu was too bland, her brother said, “You think you’re so smart? Well, go fix it, smarty pants,” as she wrote in her memoir.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2018
Additionally, after reading this recipe for poop emoji-shaped Peeps, my response is, "Well, good luck with that, smarty!"
From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2016
So we've asked our crack culture team to pick what you need to experience to be the well-rounded, culturally fluent smarty you want to be, and ordered them by importance.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
Why don’t you write a column about that, smarty pants?
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
A couple of tough boys tried to be smarty and kept on asking her name over and over.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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Ms Nicklas, who works in north Wales, said before her surgery she was "taking laxatives like they were smarties" but "still struggling to go to the toilet".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Here’s how it works: Said music smarties sent us lists of their top 10 Washington albums of 2021, ranked or unranked.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
There are those, like the smarties over at FiveThirtyEight and elsewhere who have tried to control for the variables you describe between elections or sporting events.
From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2020
Subscribers to our weekly midterms newsletter, the Hot Seats, are smarties who know about all the interesting races before their primary results make headlines.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018
"If you smarties had taken her up right at the start——" "But we didn't kno-o-ow!" wailed Marian.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper