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is outsmarted

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To beat in a competition of wits

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Chuck Connors Wallace Beeryy), the stout, glad-handing king of the Bowery, runs its gaudiest saloon but is outsmarted at every turn by the slim, suave gambler Steve Brodie George Raftt), who comes up with the ultimate P.R. stunt to steal Connors's thunder — to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's hard to say for sure what's happening within this murky atmosphere — the tale seems to involve a fisherman who is outsmarted by a fish — but it's just like the sort of dream you have after devouring an anchovy pizza before bed.

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He accused the Nittany Lions of panicking and being outsmarted.

The journalist, unwilling to be outsmarted, asked her to spell the name.

But evidence before the court suggests a world of harried analysts being outsmarted by spivvy bankers.

He's outsmarted and outflanked them, and he's got them on the defensive.

It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.

Wales's players need to be able to solve problems on the hoof and were outsmarted by England.

I have now been outsmarted four times by the phantom shit squirter of Connaught Place, and my memories of each occasion make me feel a little foolish.

Not to be outsmarted, on November 16th the government extended price controls to practically everything, from typewriters to babies' nappies.Some things have to be imported, however, and it is hard to prevent foreigners from profiteering.

The second tale relates how he conquered the Thunderbird Anzu with Enki's help but missed the powers it had stolen from him, and how, resentful at this, he plotted against Enki but was outsmarted and trapped.

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