"And you will not make any clever comments about the liturgy."
Nylan wished he could think quickly enough for a clever comment.
Verbal sparring matches help children recognize when their "clever" comments cut too deep.
A second broadcast in the winter of 1983 was quite different, involving no facile wit or clever comment.
One can't say anything around here without receiving a lecture from you, Sidney, or some clever comment or other.
And any more clever comments of that kind and I'll put a spell on you.
Yet, with all apparent complaisance, she sat, smiled, and laughed at his rather clever comments.
She makes clever comments about my various habits, and I generally ignore them.
This one wasn't laughing or making clever comments, and the line he stood on was thirty feet away.
He laughed as though this were clever comment.