too clever by half

That's what I get for trying to be too clever by half.

In fact, the idea may prove too clever by half.

"You only do that when you're being too clever by half."

There were times when one could get too clever by half, Chuck thought.

Labour have tried to be too clever by half once before.

"As the English say, you are too clever by half."

Plain, too clever by half, and with the curse of always saying what I think.

This new law is too clever by half and it's also shortsighted.

So I think turning it into a technical indicator is often too clever by half.

Too clever by half, if you want my opinion.

The man was too clever by half, a mocking smile never far from his lips.

It is dangerous when he is too clever by half.

Never, until today, has the phrase changed the degree of its fraction; it is always too clever by half.

Man's a hopeless case; too clever by half, and lies like a politician.

We had been too clever by half, and it had got us exactly nowhere.

But the idea of inventing opponents for your own ads may be too clever by half.

Too clever by half for this pair to master for long.

Such calibration of military suasion is too clever by half.

As of today, though, it looks like the Prime Minister was being too clever by half.

Sir, I replied, you are too clever by half.

"It was too clever by half," says a minister.

You've heard of being too clever by half?

But then he got too clever by half.

It may have been too clever by half.