The phrase 'a clever match' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any kind of situation or event in which two elements are paired together in a clever way. For example, "The CEO's choice of a CFO was a clever match, as the two complemented each other exceptionally well."
Designed by the longtime friends Skye Hollingsworth and Claire Harris, the cheerful beach tents fold up to roughly the size of a yoga mat and come with a clever matching carrying case.
Designed by Skye Hollingsworth and Claire Harris, longtime friends, the cheerful beach tents fold up to roughly the size of a yoga mat and come with a clever matching carrying case.
The news and weather feed resident within an app that also provides timer and brush guide information is a clever match-up that turns what could be a chore into something far less arduous.
If so, it's a very clever matching of Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth and chocolates.
It then does a clever pattern-matching to identify the song, and presents you with a page crammed with data like the name of the artist, information about tours, a link to YouTube and, in the iOS edition, the "artist's popular songs" on iTunes.
It's a clever and worthy match for E-40: one of the few vocalists in any genre who can bend words as he does.
And neither is Perry completely rejecting the thought of secession, with follow-up rhetoric suggesting a clever conservative credentials match in a caustic primary against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX).
Taken in the round – and humankind does not come rounder than Stevens – it is a clever piece of mixing and matching.
Jackson's first, a clever deflection past the goalkeeper, was matched only by his second, a delicate lift past the keeper from close range.
Philip French compared the two films' plots and themes in The Observer, and characterised Match Point's as a "clever twist on the themes of chance and fate".
