Sentence examples for like a clever from inspiring English sources

Although mizzle might seem like a clever portmanteau combining mist and drizzle, it likely derives from the Low German miseln or Dutch word for drizzle, miezelen.

(It also includes aid to families having trouble paying heating bills, which seems like a clever way to put cash in the hands of people likely to spend it).

Sounds like a clever concept.

This is not like a clever thing.

But sometimes what seems like a clever solution might backfire.

Auntie Andy said calmly, admiringly, that I sounded like a clever girl.

If that makes him sound like a clever schoolboy, there's some truth in it.

But it probably seemed like a clever idea at the time.

At its worst it reads like a clever exercise in character and point of view.

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".

Despite the success of recent campaigns that won on a "No one likes a clever clogs" ticket, we love Sherlock because he is the cleverest clog of them all.