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Adjektiivi
- (idiomatic, of a person, plan, theory, etc.) Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: too, clever, by, half
Samankaltaisia sanoja
- clever-clever
- half and half
- half-and-half
- more clever-clever
- most clever-clever
- neither too much nor too little
- originally half and half
- planetary area that is neither too warm nor too cold to sustain life
- too big for one's breeches
- too big for one's britches
- too big to fail
- too close for comfort
- too close to call
- too close to the sun
- too complicated for words
- too little, too late
- too too
Esimerkit
- [H]e had a damnable suppleness and a gift of immediate response, a readiness to oblige, that made him seem to take up causes which he really left lying, enabled him to learn enough about them in an hour to have all the air of having converted them to his use. . . . He was at all events too clever by half, since this pernicious overflow had wrecked most of his attempts.
- The poor devil was too clever by half, and made a big mistake for each of his strokes of genius.
- Historians generally agree that Roosevelt was too clever by half, and that he miscalculated badly in assuming that he had the political muscle to alter the size of the Court.
- Still, the thing about being just a little too clever by half is that it tends to catch up with you.