Sentence examples for say something clever from inspiring English sources

"Son, if you can't say something nice, say something clever but devastating".

Or say something clever to the cute international student down the hall by downloading a language translator from the Talking Panda service.

Hell, I may even get up and say something clever myself at some point.

We all wanted a little face time to register gratitude and maybe say something clever.

Kipp Friedman (KF): I could say something clever like the past isn't dead.

If we were a lesser publication, we might say something clever like, "cooly flipping the city the bird," because the business have installed ice sculptures of raised middle fingers, aimed at one the city's latest public transit projects.

I learned that he ate take-out for every meal, slept in a series of identical white V-neck T-shirts and smirked with one side of his mouth when I said something clever.

Faÿ, apparently unable to relinquish his Jewish theme, goes on to say that once, when he had said something clever about Picasso, Stein "turned to me and looked me straight in the eye and said, 'Be honest, Bernard, admit it.

But when you do the right thing, when you acknowledge someone as having said something clever, it can come across as name-dropping when it's really a desire to remove one's own name from any claim of ownership of said remark.

There he was, on the Today programme this morning, sounding just as happy and righteous as he does when he's just said something clever and funny on the telly, explaining why it was Andrew Marr's hypocrisy in bringing a superinjunction that defeated his attempts to keep his private life out of the newspapers, when he said: "I mean, usually it's just footballers and slappers".

While we're on the subject... try saying something clever or cordial before asking me to drop my drawers.