prescient, hotshot, give someone the finger

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Stern School of Business at New York University, who has been both pessimistic and prescient about the gathering credit problems.

give someone the finger

North American informal Make a gesture with the middle finger raised as an obscene sign of contempt.

hotshot 

Pronunciation: /ˈhɒtʃɒt/ 

NOUN

informal

An important or exceptionally able person:[AS MODIFIER]: their latest hotshot recruit

prescient 

Pronunciation: /ˈprɛsɪənt/ 

ADJECTIVE

Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place:a prescient warning

More example sentences

• It makes no mention at all of White's passionate and prescient warnings.
• We take no pleasure in that, and we had to endure some criticism for making such claims, but the warnings proved prescient.
• He came to the fore with a thundering and prescient prediction of the break-up of Britain, coinciding with the Silver Jubilee.