smart aleck

So much of the promise of the show is that you have a smart aleck detective who will never stop goofing around.

In the series' pilot, smart-aleck ex-lawyer Jeff Winger (Joel McHale) tells Abed that he has Asperger's syndrome.

The result was a greasy coat collar and the general tout ensemble of the genus "smart Aleck."

For if we don't run across that bag mighty soon we're bound to make it warm for this Smart Aleck.

Time was you batted a young smart aleck down, told him to go get dry behind the ears before he shot off his mouth.

Before he got there he started a guessing contest in that smart-aleck burg.

"The young squirt was always a Smart-Aleck and a blow-hard," he said.