too clever by half

形容词 adj.
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形容词 adj.
  1. Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful. idiomatic,usually
    — [H]e had a damnable suppleness and a gift of immediate response, a readiness to oblige, that made him seem to take up causes which he really left lying, enabled him to learn enough about them in an hour to have all the air of having converted them to his use. . . . He was at all events too clever by half, since this pernicious overflow had wrecked most of his attempts.
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