Astute Phrases

Phrases

• All Things Bright and Beautiful (popular Anglican hymn)
• All there (clever or quick-witted)
• Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Monty Python's Flying Circus song)
• As bright as a button
• As bright as a new pin
• As keen as mustard
• As sharp as a tack
• Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
• Box clever
• Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel song)
• Bright Lights, Big City (Jay Mcinerney book)
• Bright and early
• Bright eyed and bushy tailed
• Bright idea
• Bright lights, big city
• Bright spark
• Bright young thing
• Card sharp
• City Linking, smart thinking (City Link advertising slogan)
• Clever clogs
• Clever dick
• Eye for a bargain
• He Hate Me (Nickname of American football player Rod Smart)
• I'm a little bit wooooor, a little bit waaaaaaaaaayy, I'm a geezer! (A catchphrase from Chris The Crafty Cockney In The Fast Show)
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me! (A catchphrase from Stuart Smiley In Saturday Night Live)
• In sharp focus
• Intelligent interior
• It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen (the opening line of Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• It's Smart to be Square (British Satellite Broadcasting advertising slogan)
• It's not big and it's not clever
• Keen on
• Keen sense of smell

• Know how many beans make five
• Knowing me, knowing you, it's the best I can do (ABBA lyric)
• Look sharp
• Look sharp, feel sharp (Gillette advertising slogan)
• Missed it by that much! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Never misses a trick
• Oh, Max! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• One smart cookie
• Peachy keen
• Pearline keeps white things white and bright women bright (Pearline washing powder advertising slogan)
• Quick smart
• Razor sharp
• Sharp as a tack
• Sharp eyed
• Sharp shooter
• Sharp tongue
• Short sharp shock
• Smart Alec
• Smart arse
• Smart dust
• Smart money
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Street smart
• That's the second biggest ... I've ever seen! (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• The bright lights
• The bright lights taste (Cinzano advertising slogan)
• The future's bright, the future's Orange (Orange mobile phones advertising slogan)
• The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades (song by Timbuk 3)
• There are no flies on you
• Too clever by half
• Twas the night before Christmas - the children were dreaming of a Ford in their future - smart, swanky and gleaming (Ford Cars advertising slogan)
• Would you believe ... (A catchphrase from Get Smart)