Sentence examples for a clever dick from inspiring English sources

Being less of a dick doesn't mean being less of a clever dick.

"If you want a reputation of being cocky, arrogant and a Clever Dick, make your maiden speech early," it said.

If I had tried that sort of sophistry at school my English master would have hurled a board rubber at me for being a clever dick.

Some of his rivals think he is a clever dick who will find out pretty quickly that not using a wind tunnel was a very big mistake.

But any feelings among his countrymen that their star had deserted them were only an adornment to a more basic feeling, expressed in an everyday motto you can still hear in British school playgrounds: "Nobody likes a clever dick".

Former SAS officer Colonel Clive Fairweather condemned the move as a "clever dick idea" and said: "I'd hang on to the special forces, to every bit of experience they've got, even if they are grey-haired, old dogs – it's what's in their heads that's important.

Education Secretary Michael Gove has apologised to one of his former teachers for being a "clever-dick".

Some clever dick gets to make up a quote which basically pokes fun of the supposedly-empowered-because-soon-she-will-be-as-rich-as-that-Jordan topless model.

Gove is the sort of nerdish, know-it-all clever dick one once might have expected to see loitering at the end of a rainy railway platform, spotting trains.

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Between firing billions of dollars worth of computers and jet fuel into the vast blackness of space, those clever dicks down at Cape Canaveral found some time to come up with a few new theories.