be too clever by half

(British)

to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people At school he had a reputation for arrogance. 'Too clever by half' was how one former teacher described him.

See box clever

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Peggy	['pegi]
Mariya	mah-REE-yah (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian
Shahin	-	Persian
Hala	-	Arabic
Beata	be-AH-tah (Polish, German)	Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Late Roman
Nosizwe	-	Southern African, Xhosa