UK View: Jones showed 'balls as big as the Opera House' but still 'too clever by half' as Poms won with 'grit and spirit'From the headline of this article at The Roar.
上記の文で、too clever by halfの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "too clever by half" mean?
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解答
意味:英辞郎によると、
《be ~》〈英〉賢さを鼻にかけて嫌われる主にイギリスで使用されていることになっていますが、インターネットがある今では、アメリカでもかなり頻繁に使用されるようになっています。
余談:Pomsは、オーストラリア英語でイギリス人のことです。語源は、はっきりしませんが、この記事によると最も有力な説は、イギリスからの新しい移民(当時は島流しの囚人)は、暑さのために真っ赤になったのでpomegranate(ザクロ)と呼ばれ、それがpomsに省略された。
Answer
According to The Free Dictionary:Too contrived or arrogant in one's cleverness or intelligence, to the point of being irritating to others.
Examples
- Good planning or too clever by half? - Times, Sunday Times (2010)
- Phil's good at thinking up excuses for his behaviour - he's too clever by half.
- His many admirers describe him as clever: his enemies as too clever by half.
- I think every adolescent goes through a stage where they become too clever by half and begin to think of themselves as the only person who has things figured out.
- The phones people use these days are all too clever by half—I can barely even use them to make phone calls!
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