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smart arse
noun
One who is particularly flippant or insolent or tends to make snide remarks or jokes.
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"Niki, let me ask you something, since you are such a smart arse and all.
He was a know it all, but he wasn't a smart arse, Ray says.
But it's a beautifully painted friendship, Kristin, the sassy smart arse, wise beyond her years, and Betty, the ex-sassy smart arse, still struggling to make sense of the world.
He added: "Don't go buying me John Lewis vouchers for Christmas, trying to be a smart arse, inside a card that says 'Noel'".
Develop a bedside manner for your ward/hospital colleagues as well as with your patients – no-one likes a smart arse, medical degree or no medical degree.
Bridgeman: We talked to a lot of people but it's hard to get entertaining wisdom that's not smart arse or preachy.
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I get loads of smart arses on Twitter saying 'hey Melissa' still, of course".
Victorians disallowed it in church, and, if you really want to be embarrassed, try it between movements at a classical concert and wait for said smart arses.
"I've often looked at smart arses that think they know it all," Fitzgerald told a gathering of students at a mental and physical health seminar at Limerick Institute of Technology in 2014.
These smart arses were hardly going to use a modified version of MadWorld.
"O.K., it was kind of smart-arse.
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