pseud, too clever by half. "lambent harmonies" and "melting arpeggios"

His versatility made him a figure of fun. Private Eye mercilessly satirised him as the self-important Dr Jonathan, a sage and a pseud and too clever by half.

by half

Word Frequency

     

PHRASE [PHRASE after verb]

If you increase something by half, half of the original amount is added to it. If you decrease it by half, half of the original amount is taken away from it.

The number of 7 year olds who read poorly has increased by half over the past 5 years.

Cutting food intake by half is an incredibly difficult thing for anyone to do.

Synonyms: excessively, very much, considerably   More Synonyms of by half

pseud

noun [ C ]

 UK informal disapproving

UK 

 /sjuːd/ US 

 /suːd/

 

a person who tries to seem to have detailed knowledge or excellent judgment of a subject, especially in art, literature, music, etc.:

He's such a pseud, with his talk of '"lambent harmonies" and "melting arpeggios".

英國/sjuːd/美國/suːd/

 

試圖對某個主題，特別是藝術，文學，音樂等方面具有詳盡知識或出色判斷的人：

他實在是太假了，他講的是“低調的和聲”和“融化的琶音”。