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Smart as paint

Modern usage should be an insult. Just add "literally." Original meaning from the 1800s: clever or intelligent. First said by Long John Silver, a pirate (an occupation known for excellent grammar?) in "Treasure Island." But how smart is paint, really?

If your target researches the phrase, dictionariies only have the original, complimentary definition --- which becomes a sneaky insult if you add "literally."
You're as smart as paint, literally. Don't be offended. I was just paraphrasing a compliment from "Treasure Island." It's a literary classic.
by Albino Raven August 25, 2023
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Nick Smart

A tiny man born the year of 2008. He like avocado on bagels :)
Ohhh is that Nick Smart

Yeah!

Is he eating avocado on a bagel

Yeah!
by noodleiscool June 22, 2022
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smart term memory loss

Smart term memory loss is when you’re brain chooses to forget unimportant data or transforms important data into every day life so its more hard to forget it. Though however the original way the important data was learned will be forgotten and changed to whatever is the way your brain chooses it to be.

-Definition by Mo
I have Smart term memory loss, for example: to me, my friend texted me they didn’t want to go to homecoming with their boyfriend. To them they told me in person that. For me I remember their text very clearly in my mind but after searching for an hour I still couldn’t find it so my brain just processed the information I was given to a way I was use to communicating to this person.
by Mo-.- October 5, 2022
mugGet the smart term memory lossmug.

smart bug

Lucy studies a lot, I can tell she is a smart bug.
by HeyJes March 27, 2015
mugGet the smart bugmug.

Smart

Not you seartching this up
I am not very smart.... And neither are you
by OlliIsSmart December 8, 2021
mugGet the Smartmug.

Double Smart

When you put alcohol in your ear so that it will feel better, but ends up going to your brain and makes you so stupid that you think your Double Smart
I used alcohol in my ear and it went to my brain and now I'm double smart.
by AuraKing January 3, 2019
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