book smarts
informal (originally US )
noun
Knowledge acquired from books or study, especially as opposed to common sense, worldliness, etc.; academic intelligence; sometimes contrasted with street smarts.
Origin
1970s; earliest use found in Field and Stream.
- bloody-nose beetle
- bloody-nosed beetle
- bloody (or bloodied) but unbowed
- bloody rain
- Bloody Statute
- Bloody Sunday
- bloody water
- blood–brain barrier
- blooey
- blooie
- bloom
- bloomer
- Bloomer, Amelia
- bloomers
- bloomery
- Bloomfieldian
- Bloomfield, Leonard
- blooming
- Bloomington
- Bloomsbury
- Bloomsbury Group
- Bloomsday
- Bloom's day
- bloop
- blooper