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FTH Posted 16 years ago
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An idiom

I want to know what "smart alec" means.Can you help?
  

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org/wiki/Smart_alec As you will see, it has pretty much the same meaning as "smart ****" (***) in the UK. Used in a sentence: Johnny was being a smart aleck by making silly jokes in class and it was distracting the other students.

  • org/wiki/Smart_alec As you will see, it has pretty much the same meaning as "smart ****" (***) in the UK.
  • Used in a sentence: Johnny was being a smart aleck by making silly jokes in class and it was distracting the other students.
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Check out this Wikipedia reference to that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_alec

As you will see, it has pretty much the same meaning as "smart ****" (***) in the UK.

Used in a sentence:

Johnny was being a smart aleck by making s
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A "smart alec" or "smart aleck" is a person regarded as obnoxiously self-assertive and impudent.

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