smart alec

And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

A woman in a smart uniform scribbles out tickets for a growing line of tourists eager to take a trip on the old-fashioned train.

It used to be frequently said back in 2000 that Jeb was “the smart brother.”

A lot of British pubs have been smart enough to understand this and respond.

Thorgerson and Powell turned to video and film—a smart move given the emergence of MTV.

During the first week, not a day passed without smart skirmishes.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.

It was there that he longed to retire—to a dainty little hotel of his own with a smart clientèle.