Sentence examples for get wise from inspiring English sources

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get wise

verb

To be impertinent.

  • He was getting wise, so I cracked him one.

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Literally: "Get wise".

You get wise with age, a few grey hairs and all.

But they're on the up again, as hotels get wise to the limitations of the laws.

Since then Dominic Jerams has been in touch to tell us to get wise.

So next time somebody winds you up, don't rise to it – get wise to it.

He never seemed to get wise to the fact that the answers were pure invention.

Get wise to it now or you're going to look really stupid".

She notes that some bogus operations have been quick to change their practices as homeowners get wise to their tactics.

Plus ça change, or, it's good to get wise and thorough confirmation of a phenomenon I glimpsed on the wing.

And plenty more remain in denial about their company's true prospects and won't get wise until it's too late.

He told her to cheer up, that nobody would get wise to the fact that it was her grandmother's.

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