0 trying too hard to seem clever:
I wish Jon would make some constructive proposals instead of just making clever-clever remarks.
We have had experience of a number of such "clever-clever" schemes in the last two and a half year.
I fear that this is not a clever-clever question.
I take no pride in hearing clever-clever remarks knocking other countries, because sooner or later we shall have to get together and rebuild things.
Never mind clever-clever passion and grandiloquence.
It is to his credit that he has remained communicative without being verbose and intelligent without being clever-clever.
