He was as sharp as a needle, and in half an hour was quite able to pick up twenty or more new words.

It was made of a hard, glossy wood, and its point was as sharp as a needle.

Old Miss Marple has always been as sharp as a needle, and I'd say she still is.'

He looked placid and easygoing, and if truth be told, sleepy, and yet Phyllida was aware that underneath all that he was as sharp as a needle, ready to fire awkward questions at her and make remarks she couldn't understand.

He is as sharp as a tack.

Nope, Bud was as sharp as a tack."

Dan comments 'Paceley was as sharp as a tack and super dependable.

My sources tell me he was as sharp as a tack when they saw him a week or two before.

I called him not knowing what to expect, but he is as sharp as a tack.

I'd forgotten what she was like: as sharp as a tack.

She is still as sharp as a tack but, by God, she's done her duty.

So far in this series, their fielding has been as sharp as a tack.

But the mind is as sharp as a tack.

He could be as sharp as a tack.

She's softly spoken but as sharp as a tack.

It means that at age ninety-two she is still as sharp as a tack and in control of the family fortune.

He said Mubarak was physically weak but mentally as sharp as a tack.

He has the brilliant knack of appearing utterly distracted while remaining as sharp as a tack.

Back in the day when she was running point for her company's communications campaigns, I found Jane to be as sharp as a tack.

"She was as sharp as a tack.

Dan comments 'Paceley was as sharp as a tack and super dependable.

Some of the fielding was as sharp as a tack, some was moderate.

Jobs was "really nervous" and afraid the aging Dylan would disappoint him, but "he was as sharp as a tack."

The narrator, despite his circumstances, is erudite, humorous, larger than life, with a mind that is as sharp as a tack.

My left hand's doing good, right hand's doing alright, my mind's as sharp as a tack.

Williams still looked as sharp as a tack here at Eden Park, leaving Roberts to say: “We would love him to continue.

He developed it as a personal style, though he was verbally as sharp as a tack when he wanted to be.

He is not merely as sharp as a tack, he is the standard by which they sharpen tacks.

He can still struggle with his speech and I think some people might think Scotty's not all there - but he's as sharp as a tack.

''He'll fight at 57kg for now, and he'll be as sharp as a tack at that weight.''

Despite his frailty, Mr Milford said his father had remained "as sharp as a tack" and never lost his sense of humour.

“She’s incredible to look at,” says Jeremy Langmead, editor of Esquire magazine, “but she’s as sharp as a tack and a very good operator.”