/?smɑ?r.t?i.p?nts/pluralsmarty-pantssomeone whowantstoappearto beclever:自作聪明的人[as form of address]Okay, smarty-pants, youtellme how to do it.好吧，自作聪明的家伙，那你告诉我怎么做呀。SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesShowing arrogance and conceit
(as) proud as Luciferidiom
airs and gracesidiom
arrogant
arrogantly
as ifyouowned the placeidiom
dog
egocentric
egocentrically
egoistic
egomaniacal
overweening
overweeningly
patronize
patronizing
pomposity
talk down tosomeone
think the (whole) world revolves aroundyouidiom
throwyourweight aroundidiom
tin god
toffee-nosed
See more results ?(Definition ofsmarty-pantsfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsmarty-pants
smarty-pantsThe bruising, brilliant genre he created --smarty-pantsself-help -- has a way of turning even its most thoughtful would-be critics into underdogs.FromSlate MagazineBogus rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copy editing andsmarty-pantsone-upmanship.FromSlate MagazineJust the sheer busy-ness of the production at times crowds the drama's human dimension, and some of its humorous flourishes veer from cleverness intosmarty-pantscuteness.FromHollywood ReporterThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/smarty-pants##
