smarty-pants in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for smarty-pants in the English»French Dictionary

smarty-pants [Brit, Am ˈsmɑrdi ˌpænts] N inf

smarty-pants → smart alec

See also smart alec

smart alec [Brit ˈsmɑːt alɪk] N inf

smart alec

gros malin/grosse maligne inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Indeed, in its own smarty-pants way, it was just as mindless as the conformity it purported to critique.

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Bogus rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copy editing and smarty-pants one-upmanship.

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Just the sheer busy-ness of the production at times crowds the drama's human dimension, and some of its humorous flourishes veer from cleverness into smarty-pants cuteness.

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It was a great big wonderful middle finger to the smarty-pants mainstream media, overeducated elites and whining, politically correct lefties.

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