| 词汇 | smart aleck |
| 词源 | smart aleck. If there ever lived a real “smart Aleck,” an Alex- ander so much of an obnoxiously conceited know-it-all that his name became proverbial, no record of him exists. The term can be traced back to about the 1860s and is still frequently used for a wise guy today. The original smart aleck may have been at least clever enough to cover up all traces of his identity. One possibility for a real smart aleck, however, would be 19th- century American confidence man Alec Hoag. |
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