The person - or persons were much too clever for that.
Maybe he wants us to be too clever for our own good.
I was too clever for my own good, he said.
They had been too clever for him in the end.
"Let us hope he is finished with being clever for today."
But the cable industry may have been too clever for its own good.
It will be because they are too clever for their own commercial good.
You have not been nearly careful or clever enough for that!
She was too clever for me in the past, but now things are different.
According to her, he was too clever for his own good.