Sentences with phrase «smart as a whip»

Joe Tinker said, many years after the combination had been broken up: «Evers was fast, had a great pair of hands and was smart as a whip.

He's smart as a whip.

He is a treasure and so affectionate, smart as a whip.

She's funny as heck and smart as a whip, all with a generous side of sass.

She's as smart as a whip, and I appreciate her wisdom and knowledge.

«School improvement — increasing student learning — requires teachers to be as sharp as a scalpel, quick as a wink, smart as a whip, and responsive to every student, including those who are homeless, those who have learning challenges, those who already know the material, and those who fit into as many categories as there are students in the classroom.

Mark was smart as a whip.

Galaxy is smart as a whip and brutally eager to please.

She's smart as a whip, compassionate, and loves our patients and their owners.

Toby is smart as a whip and learns new tasks quickly and just like most Shelties, he tends to bond closely with the person who trains him.

She is smart as a whip, figures things out quickly, and knows several obedience commands.

I take agility classes and I'm smart as a whip (everyone says so at least).

They are smart as a whip and know it!

Céilidh is as smart as a whip!»

I think Jill Stein would be awesome — she's smart as whip, well known because she's run before, and she took on Trump and his cheating in the vote counts in those 3 states in 2016.

As the founder of Entrepreneur Organization, Verne is as smart as a whip when it comes to the pros and cons of business expansion.

He has great hair and is smart as a whip!

You are probably as smart as a whip but wisdom has not yet made an appearance in your life.

Smart as a whip!

Friendly, cute and smart as a whip.)

Not exact matches

British hip - hopper Mike Skinner returns with another album as The Streets — if he can re-find that drive and whip - smart commentary so prevalent on his first two albums, it could be great.

and I can tell you that listening to The Happy Bite is almost as fun as hanging out in person with these two whip - smart, warm - hearted women.

But appointing Nick «Newcastle» Brown as chief whip was a smart move to improve parliamentary discipline.

solidified his reputation as a whip - smart policy wonk who gets results.

Nonetheless, we now know that octopuses are the most intelligent invertebrates on the planet — as demonstrated by real science as well as viral videos of whip - smart cephalopods escaping from jars.

Above all, this is a superbly acted movie, stolen without remorse by Letitia Wright's work as Shuri, T'Challa's whip - smart sister, who outfits him with all of his vibranium - enhanced tech.

The Meyerowitzes all speak with the wit and observational detail that one might expect from the screenwriter of such whip - smart comedies as Mistress America and Kicking and Screaming.

Thanks in no small part to Pixar, DreamWorks & Illumination holding down the fort across the pond as well as the utterly charming Aardman Studios on this side of the Atlantic, animation is now no longer a playground just for kids; true, the target audience is still primarily child - like in both age & size but the best and most successful animated features now possess whip - smart humour that's definitely targeted to adults.

Clémence Poésy — last seen in Australia in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as Fleur Delacour — enables much of the lighter side of Farrell's Ray as the whip - smart hustler Chloë.

As energetically played by Diehl, Marx is a whip - smart firebrand whose passion and energy are palpable, an arrogant polemicist who doesn't care who knows it.

There is no better Belle than the Girl who played Hermione Granger: The whip smart, talented witch of the Harry Potter franchise was played by Watson who was just as passionate about learning as the character.

Meanwhile, as newly minted publisher of The Daily Sentinel, Britt hires the whip - smart and sexy Lenore (Cameron Diaz) as his secretary.

Meanwhile, as newly minted publisher of The Daily Sentinel, Britt hires the whip - smart and sexy Lenore -LRB-

It's the type of practically - trademarked pulpy LA noir he excels at, spinning it into a solid, character - based, instant cult classic — as if Raymond Chandler tackled the Sunset Strip with steely, whip - smart pessimism and panache.

Yet they face strong competition from Blanchett, Linney and relative newcomer Ellen Page as a whip - smart pregnant teen in «Juno.»

As you join the title character, voiced by Will Arnett, on his quest for Hollywood redemption, you'll encounter killer visual gags, whip - smart dialogue, complex - as - hell characters, and genuine feels — the kinds that'll make you evaluate (and re-evaluate, and re-re-evaluate) your own lifAs you join the title character, voiced by Will Arnett, on his quest for Hollywood redemption, you'll encounter killer visual gags, whip - smart dialogue, complex - as - hell characters, and genuine feels — the kinds that'll make you evaluate (and re-evaluate, and re-re-evaluate) your own lifas - hell characters, and genuine feels — the kinds that'll make you evaluate (and re-evaluate, and re-re-evaluate) your own life.

With sharp - as - a-blade editing, Steven Rogers's whip smart script and superb performances (including Margot Robbie as Harding), the film leaves you wondering what might have been if this powerful competitor had been given half a chance.

The whip - smart dialogue and powerful supporting performances from Billy Bob Thornton (as a sage Marine general), Margot Robbie (as an earnest British correspondent), and Martin Freeman (as a lovably sexist freelance photojournalist) keep things afloat.

This whip smart horror comedy from scribes Drew Goddard (also making his impressive directorial debut) and Joss Whedon features one of the most fiendishly unexpected plot turns in recent cinema in what I've frequently described to the uninitiated as «the Matrix meets the Monster Squad.»

The gags are whip - smart from John Cleese, whose script knows how to trade one - liners as well as it does set up physical set pieces.

Get Out, a whip smart social satire, all dressed up as a deeply unsettling horror, was one of the best films of 2017.

The writing is every bit as snappy, whip - smart and funny as we've come to expect from Sorkin, while the cast is littered with great performances from veterans like Bridges, Mortimer and Waterson, as well as up - and - comers like John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill and, quite surprisingly, Olivia Munn.

Desperate to go there, she seeks out Tomorrowland ex-pat Frank Walker (George Clooney as an action grandpa) and teams with Athena (Raffey Cassidy), a whip - smart robot who looks like a little girl and fights like a superhero, to save the world from its own negativity.

Luke Evans stars as Dr. William Moulton Marston alongside Rebecca Hall as his whip - smart, sharp - tongued wife Elizabeth, who would also be a Dr. Marston if Harvard would just grant her her PhD already.

As the ambitious and whip - smart foil to Will Ferrell's pompous anchorman, Applegate's Corningstone character was able to not only make the world's most celebrated broadcast journalist fall in love with her, but read the news right along side him at the same time.

Sort of «The Scarlet Letter» set in a Southern California high school, «Easy A» stars Emma Stone in a hugely charismatic performance as a whip - smart student who takes pity on geeky guys by letting them say they've had sex with her.

It helps that Damien Chazelle, who wrote JK Simmons to an Academy Award for his sublime work on Whiplash, onboarded the project as a screenwriter after Campbell and Stuecken sequestered the monstrous DNA of their story into its malevolent form, lending his whip - smart sensibilities and clever eye for situational tension in spades.

I'm the type of person who watches Game Of Thrones for the scheming, so I just loved Beckinsale as Lady Susan Vernon, a whip - smart widow in temporarily embarrassed circumstances who also happens to be skilled in the subtle art of manipulating British manners (and men) to her advantage.

This, of course, is vintage Weingarten, described by Nocera as «whip - smart» and «politically savvy.»

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.