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But, a smart cookie, she managed to do him one better.

It reminds me of what a smart cookie I am.

But she was a smart cookie, he thought with satisfaction, and it would sink in.

"He's a smart cookie, everybody knows that, and he has an engaging personality."

It's not because I am a smart cookie.

"I just knew I'd picked a smart cookie," he said unpleasantly.

On politics, Bill Clinton is still a smart cookie.

So who says he isn't a smart cookie?

The alpha was a smart cookie even when she was known as a coed.

"This guy Hayes must have been a smart cookie," Curran said.

"Joe's a smart cookie around machinery, so he was to handle the sabotage end of it.

And there has to be a way for a smart cookie like you to grab a little bitty piece of that bonanza.

You're a smart cookie, you'll work it out."

But he's a smart cookie, is Client Zero.

"She was a smart cookie, I think.

Unless Newman is a smart cookie.

And my wife is a smart cookie, too: 'I had tutoring by a wise man all my life, until he turned me over to you.

This M.E.'s a smart cookie, and he begins to dig.

With an eight-inch tin selling for $20, Mr. Spectre appears to be a smart cookie.

O'Donnell's a smart cookie.

"A smart cookie."

One of Claire's assistants, a smart cookie named Everlina Ferguson, was closing a drawer on a gunshot victim when I got there.

Given such views, Mr. Connerly finds himself both rousingly cheered for his courage and jeered for his collaboration, a smart cookie to some, a disloyal Oreo to others.

This is all simplicity itself if you're cooking at home: being a smart cookie, you've already sautéed the apples in a pan with a splash of olive oil, a sprig of thyme, a bay leaf.