Please explain what is ment when someone says “Hes to clever by half”
I’m trying my darndest to restrain a sardonic response.
It means that the person in question is not, indeed, too clever at all.
Such a person outsmarts himself. He’s 1.5 times as smart as he should be.
Can you give me an example
Showing the boss his mistake.
Aw c;mon guys-----------it should read, “TOO clver by half”!
Wait, this supposed guy is a meat clever? How is that?
Disingenuous?
It either means he’s in the 2nd grade, or English isn’t his native language. 
Hereis one definition, using “clever” instead of “smart”:
Be too clever by half:
to be too confident of your own intelligence in a way that annoys other people:
She was too clever by half - always correcting the teacher or coming back with a smart answer.
No, that merely means that the person puts up a front - they purport to be speaking honestly, but in fact are dishonest or at least have hidden motives eg “[Politician of your choice] disingenously said that there were no plans to raise taxes” (ie there were in fact plans or something like them).
I have to wonder if you can see the irony of your attempt to correct other users.
Ah, Gaudere’s Law in action!
Say a man cheats on his wife
The smart man will use as little details as possible in the alibi , while the clever man will use too many details that will trip him up.
Declan
Uv corse!