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too smart for one's own good

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too smart for one's own good
(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of their own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself. It describes someone who tries to use schemes or clever tactics but ends up harming their own interests.

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0.240 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.216 per million

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