0 someone who wants to appear to be clever:
[ as form of address ] Okay, smarty-pants, you tell me how to do it.
The bruising, brilliant genre he created -- smarty-pants self-help -- has a way of turning even its most thoughtful would-be critics into underdogs.
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.
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.
