By 1970 or thereabouts psychologists interested in animal learning had to cope with variations on the foregoing wisecrack that could be seriously applied to their own subject matter.
It is at best awkward, and at worst useless and embarrassing, to try to retrieve earlier talk for the purpose of making a wisecrack about that talk or off it.
He had passed a self-denying ordinance upon himself so far as wisecracks are concerned.
I rather expected some wisecrack at that point.
There is always some truth in wisecracks and legpulls.
Instead, we only had wisecracks.
We are now in danger of reversing the wisecrack and saying that for every 30 wanting to learn at least one will not be able to find a teacher.
Reporters from most of the city's newspapers are passing the time with poker and pungent wisecracks about the news of the day.
