(Singapore, Singlish) and pretending to be clever.
[O]ne never knows how such unsolicited advice might be taken. The owner might just ask me not to be too ‘keh khiang’ (clever by half) and to mind my own business, just as he was so successfully minding his.
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(Singapore, Singlish) To act overly clever and end up making reckless or unwise decisions without careful consideration.
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