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
Ileana	[ai'li:nə]
ÂViÂJa	-	Native American, Greenlandic
Raisel	-	Yiddish
Anamaria	-	Romanian
Ekkebert	-	Ancient Germanic
Lawahiz	-	Arabic (Rare)