“clever-clever”的英文意思

单词

clever-clever

释义

ˈclever-ˈclever, a.
[Reduplicated from clever a.; cf. pretty-pretty, etc.]
Anxious to be considered clever; over-clever. Hence ˈclever-ˈcleverness.
1896G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Mar. (1965) 617 A good melodrama is a more difficult thing to write than all this clever-clever comedy.1921C. Dane Bill of Divorcement iii. 75 Don't be clever-clever, old thing.1946Koestler Thieves in Night i. vi. 43 Had to show off all the time..what clever-clever fellows they were.1957D. J. Enright Apothecary's Shop 215 We are apt to suffer from the occupational malady of clever-cleverness.

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