The clever bastards had posted someone outside on the off-chance.

Aw hell, you never get that much of a look at the clever bastard, John.

I was no longer the damned clever little bastard; I'd shrunk to a mere boy listening to a man.

Between the two of us clever bastards, we've opened the bloody door, that's what!

It just means our kid'll be all the more clever a little bastard.

Ryan had known quite a few clever bastards in the brokerage business.

It'll be light soon; some clever bastard with a camera would get a fortune for that picture!'

Whoever our guy is, he's a really clever bastard.

He's a clever little bastard and a trial is out of the question.

Assume he's still the clever bastard we've come to know and love.