"smart off" and another metaphorical "north of" on NBC news

[Wilson Gray]

I'm surprised that "smart off" in the relevant - or in any other - meaning
is so rare and obscure! It's as unexpected - to me, anyway - as "laid to
the bone" meaning "drunk and/or high."

Youneverknow.

Boys' Life - Dec 1970 - Page 58
books.google.com/books?id=Vo0lBgYISR4C
Vol. 60, No. 12 - ‎Magazine - ‎Full view

"We call the shots like we see them. ... Your parents bought a two-bit
ranch at the end of Gooseberry Run and think they can make it go. You go
over to town and

_smart off_

to the school board and the superintendent and take a lot of fancy courses
in how to drive."


On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> "smart off"
>
>
> Uh, what's interesting about this, Lar?
>
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
>


-- 
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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