Sentence examples for say something smart from inspiring English sources

"I say something, he might say something smart back, man," Mayweather, Sr., says.

She cocked her hip, as if she expected me to say something smart back, like Berner would've done.

I may line up interview subjects who sound newsworthy and pertinent, but I can't make him or her say something smart or original.

"Oh, the way to impress the males was to say something smart, not to sit in the corner like you didn't have a brain," recalled Ms. Liebowitz.

For those West Midlanders who pride ourselves on our intelligence and speed of humour, the simple application of our native accent gives us an immediate advantage over other people of similar intelligence, because when we say something smart, people look at us in admiring amazement, as if witnessing a chimp that can paint attractive water colours.

Pinsky shared one of his own favorites, Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium". He talked about the tendency for poetry to become too formalized, scaring people into feeling as if they have to say something "smart". A poem is first and foremost "something that sounds marvelously moving," he argued.

A friend said something smart to me the other day: the best designers are the ones without egos who can cater to their clients.

The youngsters say they saw a police officer "staring them down" and Manning says one of them "may have said something smart".

Melody had fallen for Pat at a hurling match, after he was sent off for attacking a boy who had "said something smart" about her in school.

They said something "smart" to them?

Chances are, they said something smart, interesting, entertaining, or useful.