smart ass

A woman in a smart uniform scribbles out tickets for a growing line of tourists eager to take a trip on the old-fashioned train.

During the first week, not a day passed without smart skirmishes.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.