smart-arse

Every couple should try to be more like Steve and Becky.4 What they sayThe traditional sitcom couple exchange salvos of smart-arse lines, each of which is followed by an aftershock of audience laughter.

TV review: Him & Her 2011

You were a young smart-arse whose guard was too low.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

The smart-arse approach of the wearers-of-stormtrooper-drag reminds me of something attributed to that vile megalomaniac Richelieu: "give me six lines from the most honest man, and I will find in it something to hang him".

Doing 55 in a 54 « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

The sullenness, the smart-arse remarks, the fists-first approach: all the redneck, bullshit attitude that gave the Gardai a bad name.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

You were a young smart-arse whose guard was too low.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

The other impulse was really just changing my personality from being a nice kid who brought flowers to the teacher and didn't want any trouble to being a smart-arse, just to stay ... to sort of stop from disappearing.

A transcript of an interview with Tim Winton on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Enough Rope hosted by Andrew Denton in which Tim discusses many aspects from his life including how he nearly drowned when he was nine and how he avoided the school bullies by telling taller and taller tales 2010

Think Tom Stoppard's Jumpers meets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and you have a taste of this smart-arse evening, in which Davalos doesn't just wear his learning on his sleeve but plasters it all over the stage.

Wittenberg – review 2011

“That sounds about right,” Brogan said, frowning at him like she thought he was being a smart-arse correcting her pronunciation.

The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

So unless you are going to be a smart-arse and start the journey with a C and only inform your three-year-old the answer was "cumulo-nimbus cloud" when you get to Cornwall seven hours later, then it's a non-starter.

Why I-spy is bad for long car journeys 2010

I can't stand smart-arse Coren and I can't stand lard-arse Brigstocke.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010