"clever answer" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing someone's response to a question or remark, or when praising a clever response. For example: His clever answer impressed everyone in the room.
Face it: there is no clever answer.
"But never forget that Tony Blair is a long way from Paris".A clever answer.
Typically, of course, he has a clever answer ready, as with TV chefs who put their hands under the counter and come up with something they prepared earlier.
CALLIGRAPHY makes its grand debut today at 10 Down as the clever answer to "script writer's study," so break out your inkwell.
"Let me see what I, let me see if I can come up with a clever answer on the spot to that sort of question, I, I, I..."...
Well, as much as I'd like to give a clever answer, the truth is we get along way better now than we did throughout any period during the 90's.
I'd love to have some big and clever answers.
Neither discipline is about the clever answers one can provide under cross-examination.
It seems increasingly clear that Buhari doesn't have any clever answers to Nigeria's current economic problems and it would thus be wise of him to seek advice from those who might have alternative solutions.
Private detectives hired by Queensberry had rounded up rent boys and starstruck youths who had served Wilde's needs, and there were no clever answers to the next round of questions: "Did you become intimate with a young man named Conway?.
Before landing "Friends," Mr. Perry says, he channeled this drive into obsessive activities -- like taking three hours to prepare a clever answering machine message, then asking his friends to critique it and then spending another three hours making it even funnier.
