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Quit being a wise guy.
No more wise-guy remarks, got it?
a movie about two wiseguys
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The wise guys that summarily swooped him up were rewarded with 10 multiple-TD games and a QB8 finish on the year.
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Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
Swaggering ex-con Sullivan’s conscience manifests in the form of Father Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien), the childhood friend turned cleric who does his best to keep the wise guys in line and set another example for the lovable, mischievous Dead End Kids.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Indeed, other scholars insist that the Gospel’s author did not mean for the Magi to be wise guys at all—or, rather, only in the strictly Scorsesean sense, as cheaters and scammers whose fake magic was humbled by the real revelation.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
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Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 30 Jan. 2025
Swaggering ex-con Sullivan’s conscience manifests in the form of Father Jerry Connolly (Pat O’Brien), the childhood friend turned cleric who does his best to keep the wise guys in line and set another example for the lovable, mischievous Dead End Kids.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
Indeed, other scholars insist that the Gospel’s author did not mean for the Magi to be wise guys at all—or, rather, only in the strictly Scorsesean sense, as cheaters and scammers whose fake magic was humbled by the real revelation.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
See All Example Sentences for wise guy
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“Wise guy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wise%20guy. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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