smart cookienoun [ C ]
/ˌsmɑːt ˈkʊk.i//ˌsmɑːrt ˈkʊk.i/US informala clever person who makes good decisions:
He is a smart cookie, adjusting his songs to fit his audiences.
You are one smart cookie.
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- According to her colleagues, Ann is a real smart cookie.
- She might seem like a scatterbrain, but in fact she's a smart cookie.
- The woman in charge was obviously a smart cookie with a lot of experience.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Intelligent people
- academic
- bluestocking
- bookish
- bookworm
- brain
- bright spark
- clever
- gnome
- intellect
- intellectual
- laureate
- mage
- not be just a pretty face idiom
- pretty
- sage
- scholar
- smart-arse
- swot
- wit
- wonk
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