QUOTES WITH «SMART-ALECK»
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smart-aleck.
Nobody gets any fun out of baseball any more. I guess a kid's crazy not to be serious about it when he's drawing down $20,000 or $30,000 a year, and any smart-aleck gag you try may be your last. But what's life without a laugh?
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SMART-ALECK»
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smart-aleck in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
smart-aleck and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The
Smart Aleck's Guide to American History
Do you know America? No, I mean, do you REALLY know America? Would you recognize John Adams in a lineup? Can you identify any presidents between Lincoln and Roosevelt? Hmmm. I thought so. Well, you really need this book.
2
Nobody's wife: the
smart aleck and the king of the beats
The woman who was married to Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac while he was writing his most famous work, "On the Road," recounts the ups and downs of their relationship.
3
Lenny Kandell
Smart Aleck
Eleven-year-old Lenny wants to become the world's greatest stand-up comic, but with an enemy like Mousie he wonders if he'll have any future at all.
4
The
Smart Aleck Chronicles II
This time, as in the previous volume, there are pithy and pointless observations that may have appeared in previous publications for which the author may have had responsibility, fictitious biographies of friends and colleagues, several ...
5
The
Smart Aleck Chronicles III
The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007.
This was followed five years later with the release of a second volume. As noted
in the prefaces to both these collections, their intended purpose was to present to
...
6
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Parenting
Children with easy-going temperaments will try out smart-aleck behavior once or
twice and drop it if it doesn't get a response. Alert your child to the offensive
behavior. Ifyour child continues to display an impertinent attitude, point out
specific ...
David Borgenicht, Sarah Jordan, Joshua Piven, 2011
7
Stop Struggling, Start Teaching
Ask them why they feel like they have to make smart-aleck remarks. Once they
have explained, you could ask them to come up with reasons why those remarks
are not appropriate in class. Their responses may include, "They could hurt the ...
Katie Van Dyke, Brad Wilcox, 2006
8
The
Smart Aleck Chronicles: A Compendium of Careless ...
The Smart Aleck Chronicles makes no effort to be anything other that what it appears to be, whatever that is.
9
When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and ...
It's a story about an old man and a smart-aleck little boy. The smart-aleck boy had
decided he was going to show the old man up, show him what a fool he was. The
smart-aleck boy caught a little bird on the porch and his plan was to go up to ...
10
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Eleventh Edition
1787) : any of various polygonums with strong acidic juice smarty or smart-ie
Vsmar-teA n, pi smart-ies (1847) : SMART ALECK smarty— pants \-,pan(t)s\ n pi
but sing in constr (1941) : SMART ALECK — smarty-pants adj smash \'smash\ n ...
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SMART-ALECK»
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smart-aleck is used in the context of the following news items.
Answer Man: Quad bear cubs common? AT&T potholes?
Today's batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: We moved here in 2012, and we've had a really interesting experience ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 15»
Answer Man: Alien invasion markings in the RAD?
Today's batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: These X-shaped things have appeared in French Broad River Park and ... «Asheville Citizen-Times, May 15»
The smart-aleck IT genius who crashed the Dow
An IT genius, perhaps, but a bit of a smart-aleck, too, says D'Agata; the court papers say Sarao once bragged that he told a U.S. regulator to "kiss his" rear end ... «CBS News, Apr 15»
Movie Listings for April 10-16
'Cut Bank' (R, 1:33) This smart-aleck comic rehash of much better films by the Coen Brothers and David Lynch comes fitfully alive when Bruce Dern, in a glaring, ... «New York Times, Apr 15»
Lame Singapore Narcs Turn in Smart-Aleck Teen Over YouTube …
A 17-year-old Singapore resident has been arrested for criticizing the country's government, the New York Times reports, and the details of the situation are ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 15»
Ramis reigned in an era of smart-aleck comedy
Harold Ramis, who died Monday, was not quite a household name, but he shaped American comedy as much as anyone in the past 40 years. No other movie ... «STLtoday.com, Feb 14»
Cleveland Browns lawyer's smart-aleck response to fan's letter is an …
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Doesn't everyone have an inner wiseacre impulse he'd like to unleash after receiving a letter of complaint? James N. Bailey, former ... «Plain Dealer, Jan 11»
