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Minhuoc Posted 20 years ago
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00 "He was too good a cook by half for this small restaurant." 02 br
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00 "He was too good a cook by half for this small restaurant." 02 br
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0 Here's Cambridge's explanation for "too clever by half": 02 br
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00 be too clever by half 02 br
00 to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people: 02 br
00 She was too clever by half - always correcting the teacher or coming back with a smart answer. 02 br
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00 So your sentence means "he was far too good a
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00 be too clever by half 02 br
00 to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people: 02 br
00 She was too clever by half - always correcting the teacher or coming back with a smart answer. 02 br
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00 So your sentence means "he was far too good a
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