Seldom does a hand go up, and usually it belongs to a smart aleck.

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When Buffet spits out a smart aleck remark like this in public no one ever seems to fact check it.

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It's Smart Aleck Milbank who prowls the Republican National Convention, trying to catch sight of House Majority Whip Tom Delay in fund-raising overdrive.

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Smart aleck remarks aside, the cost to the country would be lack of confidence that there would be administrative continuity in a time of crisis.

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Writers loved Weaver because he was voluble, funny and profane, an old-fashioned smart aleck in a game whose characters were getting more professional, formal and boring every year.

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Little by little, Wall is edging out of the collegiate hothouse of smart-aleck ideas and into a (if not the) world.

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Two driven and smart-aleck kids, they had taken on an extraordinarily demanding schedule of Pre-Algebra, and Advanced Language, amid a variety of extra-curricular activities.

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For my friend, the Oscars are sacred, a Super Bowl Sunday, and she wants to hear and linger upon every spoken word, and can't stand the thought of a smart-aleck interrupting the broadcast.

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