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Quit being a wise guy.
No more wise-guy remarks, got it?
a movie about two wiseguys
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Tennessee is currently a 2.5-point favorite, an indication the wise guys believe Love is unlikely to play.
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Rob Reischel, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
The wise guys prefer the Bucs’ Mike Evans to follow suit, but my money’s on Godwin.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
Indeed, other scholars insist that the Gospel’s author did not mean for the Magi to be wise guys at all—or, rather, only in the strictly Scorsesean sense, as cheaters and scammers whose fake magic was humbled by the real revelation.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
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Rob Reischel, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
The wise guys prefer the Bucs’ Mike Evans to follow suit, but my money’s on Godwin.
—Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2024
Indeed, other scholars insist that the Gospel’s author did not mean for the Magi to be wise guys at all—or, rather, only in the strictly Scorsesean sense, as cheaters and scammers whose fake magic was humbled by the real revelation.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
Also Abe Lincoln, but talkin’ like a real wise guy over here.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2023
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“Wise guy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wise%20guy. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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