whip-smart

ˈʍɪpˌsmɑːt

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(Canada, US, informal) Very intelligent.

Seeing them here in town, smart in American-style uniforms, Peru's Army looks extremely well-trained, whip-smart.

Origin: Inversion of earlier smart as a whip (compare rock solid, from solid as a rock; snow-white, from white as snow; etc.). Possibly an allusion to how quickly the tip of a whip moves when the whip is cracked. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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