smart arse BrE informal
smart ass AmE informal
smart-arse BrE informal
smart-ass AmE informal

What smart arse academic got this terminology the wrong way around?

All right, smart arse, what do you think we should do?

Bit of a smart arse, did you have lessons?

I believe I get extra points for being a smart arse.

How about some form of business tax that the buggers can't avoid with smart arse accounting?

What being a smart arse about that?

You really are a smart arse.

"Nobody loves a smart arse you know."

A film for wise-cracking, smart arse kids.

'Smart arse,' he said to it when he arrived at the landing.

I was just bein' a smart arse.

'And what was that then, smart arse?

He struck me as being a bit of an opportunist and an annoying smart arse (more so than his brother!!)

Don't worry, they will find a smart arse lawyer to appeal and then stretch it out for another 5 years !!

They have never liked a smart arse, particularly one covered in clay, though generally they were on the side of González throughout.

"Ballad of a Smart Arse"

Thanks all for the helpful advice, BubbaK thanks for the smart arse reply.

(Looking forward to 'Thorn Trees' typically smart arse comments!)

'With what, smart arse?' sneered Melanie.

'All right, smart arse.

Well, smart arse/ she said tartly, the ideal age is half the man's age, plus seven., You aren't twenty-six, dearie!

'Thank you, Cooligan, I thought by now you would have learned not to be a smart arse!'

And many more graduates will not find suitable employment than did in your generation Mr Willetts - so reverse that smart arse!

'Smart arse, clever prick.

He hoped he hadn't enlisted the aid of a smart arse. . . . Rebus pointed to the tie.

You will not be the smart ass and waste time.

Mom told me to stop being a smart ass and get ready for school.

"You're a smart ass and God will get you for that!"

Maybe that will lessen her smart ass attitude a little."

The problem was that most of the guys I knew were smart asses, or macho tough boys.

"Don't try to be a smart ass with me," he threatened.

He was sensitive like Laura, too, not just a smart ass kid."

I think I lost something in there, smart ass.

"Hey, come on, smart ass, that's pretty close to insubordination."

From that moment on I have been an incorrigible smart ass and have never considered any other way of life.

She is just as big a smart ass today as she was back then."

And you, smart ass, you throw them cards once.

This smart ass chief operative isn't going to find anything I didn't find.

In case you didn't realize it, Taylor, you're capable of being an extreme smart ass."

After being fired from the show, Elliot created a board game called Smart Ass.

"Listen, you smart ass gringo, I run this prison.

'You couldn't hit a bull in an entry, smart ass.

"Yeah, smart ass," she laughed, raising just a little off the cushion, "you'd like that wouldn't you?"

"Art, I don't want to be a smart ass, but aren't you trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs?"

None of you smart asses thought of it, huh?"

Eventually you'll become what you destroy even if you succeed, but then some new smart ass will come along and do the same to you.

"You're a real smart ass, Nemoto, you know that?"