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Smart Alec(k) Bar in Key West, Florida, or by a cook named Joe at a café in Sioux City, Iowa. Smart Alec(k) // Clever Dick (Am inf) – самоуверенный всезнайка; наглец, нахал, хлыщ A smart Alec is a conceited person who likes to show off how clever and knowledgeable they are. The origin is often attributed to British humorist J.B.Morton’s character Dr Smart-Allick. However Morton was born in 1893, and the term has been around since the mid-1800s. The more popular theory is that the police gave the name to Aleck Hoag, a New York conman, in the 1840s. He ran a scam but avoided arrest by paying off the police, but later decided to cut them out of the deal, and they took him in, nicknaming him Smart Aleck. Socratic irony – сократический метод ведения спора (путем постановки ряда вопросов, основанных якобы на незнании спрашивающего и выявляющих невежество собеседника) When someone says something that conveys a message that contradicts the literal words. The Socratic irony, named after the classical Greek philosopher Socrates, is a form of inquiry and debate between individuals with opposing viewpoints based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to illuminate ideas. In the case of Socratic irony, Socrates might pretend to think his students wise or he might denigrate his own intelligence, as by pretending he doesn’t know the answer. Sod’s Law (sl) – закон подлости, закон бутерброда Sod’s law is a name for the axiom of “bad fortune will be tailored to the individual” and “anything that can go wrong, will”. “Toast will always land butter side down” is often given as an example of Sod’s law in action. The phrase is seemingly derived, at least in part, from the colloquialism an “unlucky sod”, a term used to describe someone who has had some bad unlucky experience, and is usually used 152