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"street-smart" Definitions
  1. having the knowledge and experience that is needed to deal with the difficulties and dangers of life in a big city

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Street smart and grounded, Capricorns also identify with Sporty Spice.
"It was being book smart and street smart," he said.
People like us, street smart, we aren't scared of that.
As a fox he is a canine kind of street smart.
Unauthorized, street-smart tweaks of luxury timepieces also are popping up.
"Street Smart with Christopher Reeve," he said, referring to the 1987 thriller.
Text posters by Ms. Rasheed cut Rockwellian romanticism with street-smart humor.
But be careful—the pigeons are street-smart, and they love fries.
Smart plays a therapist, and Keller plays the prickly but street smart Syd.
Can the street-smart designers behind Public School put the NY back in DKNY?
Hines stars as the street-smart Cece in the film about two young homeless women.
VICE: In 13 Hours and in Armageddon, street-smart guys outsmart Ivy-League, government types.
I don't need a high I.Q., but I do need people to be street smart.
Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the legendary street-smart chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, has died.
Charlotte Ritter is no longer a bourgeois law student but a street-smart working-class woman.
And, he's proud of that fact, he said in an interview for "Street Smart" on Bloomberg.
The book de-gentrifies the narrative, returning the street-smart stories of the original protesters to history.
Mr. Breitbart could switch his mien in an instant from detached academic observer to street-smart bully.
"Not going by the book?" is a great way to clue a lively entry like STREET SMART.
She began her career with recurring role as a street-smart runaway on TV's Days of Our Lives.
To get the no-gravy truth, I turned to Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition.
Billy is now a street-smart, mildly delinquent teen, roving around the neighborhoods of Philadelphia to find her again.
It's not everyday a street smart tortoise walks into your life, so don't let this opportunity pass you by.
She was street smart and taught the rest of the gang a thing or two about their cushy existences.
In Israel, which prides itself on its street-smart analysis of American politics, Mr. Trump remains a wild card.
Why you should watch: If you've ever been called book smart over street smart, "Booksmart" will resonate with you.
It's a distinct blue collar/white collar dynamic: a hard-working, earnest, street-smart hero getting disrespected by establishment powerbrokers.
It's street-smart Mexican diplomacy, the kind of understanding that runs far and wide across this country of 120 million.
Amassing money has more to do with street-smart savvy than your ability to memorize information and excel on exams.
Laws prohibit entering the catacombs, but clever, street-smart residents and visitors know that there are secret entrances to the labyrinth.
Mokhtar spoke some Arabic, but a street-smart American kid from the Tenderloin was predictably out of place in rural Yemen.
It's a sweet-toned anecdote, about a street-smart boy named Dud and his dog, that's spiced with a slangy pugnacity.
The latest Transformers: The Last Knight trailer is all about Izzy (Isabela Moner), a street-smart young orphan in the Rey mold.
Enter Martin Scorsese and his brat pack to bring New York mobsters and their street-smart, terrifying grit to the silver screen.
So these street smart voters can sense a phony when they see one, and Warren is a fraud of the first order.
Unlike the rugged two-door K5 Blazer, however, this one is expected to be a street-smart crossover based on the GMC Acadia.
Jennifer Lopez will return to the big screen this fall in one of the roles she plays best: a street-smart New Yorker.
But, as the book Street Smart argues, we need comprehensive privatization and the freeing of competitive entrepreneurial discovery to solve our traffic problems.
" Rand Spero, CFP and president of Street Smart Financial, said that "the real success of a move involves much more than economics and taxes.
According to The Wrap, street-smart comedian Billy Eichner is set to voice Timon and gravelly voiced Seth Rogen would buddy up to Pumbaa.
Hector Jimenez is best known for playing the street-smart wrestler Esqueleto -- opposite Jack Black as Nacho -- in the 2006 funny film 'Nacho Libre.
He oozes a homegrown street-smart style overshadowed only by the boozy, brazen cartoons and droopy monochrome eyes he tattoos across the city's face.
The son of Yemeni immigrants, he grew up street smart and aimless in the seedy Tenderloin district, an inveterate loafer, sponger, bungler and charmer.
For the first time, an American writer told a Jewish-American hero's picaresque story of self-discovery in heightened language and street-smart argot.
When he was old enough, he helped his "street smart" father's business find its current footing in ecotourism, which focuses on the state's natural elements.
They take up with a street-smart boy carrying a disconcerting amount of cash, and two young women, sisters whose beauty becomes a harrowing liability.
STREET-SMART COFFEE Then I go and get an almond latte from a fantastic coffee cart called Peddler on the corner of Lafayette and Houston.
Behind the two stand Axe's street-smart wife, Lara (Malin Akerman), and Chuck's better half, Wendy (Maggie Siff), a senior executive at Axe's multibillion-dollar firm.
More than 40 years of movies, TV and music have told us who Paper Boi should be — macho, street smart and made of onyx, musk and cardboard.
Mackay himself is a prose master who seems to take real pleasure in assigning a street-smart Pakistani named Usman Kassar to teach Martin the local lingo.
Guzman will have the opportunity to meet some of them because they will sit on his jury, a diverse Brooklyn jury of the world-wise and street-smart.
Even though he is incarcerated, the street-smart Freddy still has found a way to manipulate a woman with more power than he has into being his pawn.
In Suisse Allemande, when we talk about a band and say they sound like they're from the Romandie, pretty much anybody who's street-smart knows what that means.
It is the audacious autobiography of a street-smart Brooklyn-born cop, the sweet-talking son of a Pentecostal minister who, when he retired, became a minister himself.
The aspiring hip-hop star plays himself — a cool, street-smart kid whose grandmother sends him to live with his cousins' family, upending their conservative way of life.
Pnut's best friend is Marcel Baptiste (Moise Morancy), a transplanted black Haitian who has taught himself to blend in with the street-smart white kids he hangs with.
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Mindy Kaling plays a jewelry expert, Rihanna a mysterious hacker type, Helena Bonham Carter works in fashion, Sarah Paulson's a reluctant mom, and Awkwafina plays a street-smart hustler.
Street-smart executives certainly want to know the what so they have rapid-fire responses to their CEO and board when asked to explain digital transformation in the elevator.
A street-smart kid with something to prove, Mr. Edwards acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that his demeanor had caused some people to doubt him.
Like Francie and Holden before her, Lucy, a street-smart, superlative basketballer vulnerable to the perils of approaching womanhood, is too carefully drawn to be equated with anyone else.
He's trying to turn his invention into a major company, along the way trying to outwit investors and competitors who are all more street-smart and pragmatic than he is.
The vice president is presenting himself as the most experienced and street-smart Democrat who can best be trusted to handle the negative barrage that Trump is waiting to unleash.
And men like Andy Palmer, a street-smart punk-rock enthusiast from England who spent over two decades at Nissan before taking his marketing acumen to Aston Martin in 2014.
Cipollone is "a rare combination of law review smart and street smart," said Scalia, who was editor-in-chief of the law school's legal journal when Cipollone was on staff.
Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Republicans may not peel away from Trump unless the Mueller report dismantles Trump's persona as a street-smart deal maker.
What's fantastic about Sagittariuses is that you're both street smart and book smart, and as the sun meets Mercury, you're reconnecting with your inner knowledge on a deep and profound level!
But the thing is, most of the time, a protein bar isn't the best option for a snack or meal replacement, says Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition.
NEW YORK — Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning chronicler of wise guys and underdogs who became the brash embodiment of the old-time, street smart New Yorker, died Sunday.
Of course, the teenagers figuring out how to survive in this world in which adults so frequently fail them are the stars of the story, street-smart and savvy and searching.
My father was a successful small business owner — a meatpacker — and though my parents were street smart and financially secure, to me, their know-it-all, bookish daughter, they seemed unrefined.
That means we get our first real look at Venom's human alter ego — the dogged street-smart reporter Eddie Brock, played by Hardy with his typical mix of mild manners and toughness.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all of this, Reacher learns he may or may not have fathered a teenage girl  named Samantha (Danika Yarosh), who alternates between being street-smart and incredibly stupid.
"Perhaps the system tolerates corruption because the street smart politician is better at making the wheels of the bureaucracy creak, however slowly, in favor of his constituents," he said in a 2014 speech.
In his Piano Sonata No. 1 (dedicated to the writer Thomas Mann), the music's jaunty, street-smart energy blends with pungent harmonies to create a steely tension that sometimes brings to mind Shostakovich.
Before you can reintroduce nutrition considerations when making food decisions, a lot of the legwork has to be spent healing your relationship with food, explains Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition.
Hines stars as a street-smart homeless woman named Cece who teams up with her best friend Chrissie, played by the film's screenwriter, Stacey Maltin, to seduce men into giving them food and shelter.
"Those who do watch will find a lot to admire in K.C., who's both book- and street-smart, a critical thinker, and always graceful under pressure," said the children's media guide Common Sense Media.
Barks plays Vivian like a classic bright-eyed ingenue, conscious of her worth and ready to prove it, rather than as a street-smart, wary kid who needs a nudge to demand more of herself.
Leslie Jones gives Patty her all, but given lazy writing ("Hell, no" and "You guys may know science but I know New York") her character still feels like a worn black street-smart sidekick stereotype.
While their iconic 'W' logo was once cultural shorthand for street-smart hardness and uncompromising authenticity, T-shirts bearing it now haunt H&M clearance sections and frat boy clothing drawers all across the world.
The Alyx style, Mr. Williams said, is less a strict credo than a feeling, or maybe more accurately a mix of feelings, since it draws equally from street-smart aggression, Gothic grimness and military polish.
His stepfather, a rough-around-the-edges, street-smart Teamsters functionary named Chuckie O'Brien, was one of Hoffa's closest associates — a combination of aide-de-camp, confidant and surrogate son for more than three decades.
But even for those of us who aren't street-smart foster kids, and who have lived lives full of love and support, there's a very human yearning and hope that we'll find more people like us.
The American art critic Hilton Kramer once described Basquiat as "a talentless hustler, street-smart but otherwise invincibly ignorant, who used his youth, his looks, his skin color and his abundant sex appeal" to win fame.
At the time, Philip was starring in the CBS sitcom Alice as Linda Lavin's tall and toothily handsome son Tommy, while Nancy was playing the tough-talking, street-smart Jo on NBC's The Facts of Life.
"Every cell, from the brain, to the organs, to the skeletal muscle runs on glucose, which is a simple carbohydrate that can be efficiently processed for energy," says Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition.
If there's one woman who knows all about the colorful era, it's Pam Grier, the former screen siren known for playing strong, sexy, street-smart protagonists in popular black films like Foxy Brown, Coffy and Sheba Baby.
That said, coconut butter isn't the same thing as coconut oil: "Coconut oil is extracted from the coconut meat, so it ends up as a pure fat," says Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition.
We discover this world through a small cast of outlaw medical practitioners: brilliant surgeon Doc; his level-headed assistant Molly; and Billy, a street-smart bladerunner with a malformed foot that's shut him out of more respectable work.
Although she's a millennial woman carving her way through an alienating urban environment, Fleabag has little in common with other recent characters in this mode, from Girls' mopey Hannah Horvath to the street-smart pratfallers of Broad City.
Hank Azaria follows up his stellar work on the recent IFC series "Brockmire" with a memorable turn as Frank DiPascali, a street-smart hustler who was one of the few people in the organization in on the swindle.
He doesn&apost read, you know he hasn&apost studied the Peloponnesian wars and Sung Soo and what not and it turns out he has a street smart sense that is unlike frankly anything I&aposve seen in politics.
Victoria Beckham started her career as a Spice Girl after answering an ad for young women who were "street smart, extrovert, ambitious and able to sing and dance," that was placed in British industry magazine "The Stage" in 20163.
The theme is starting over, and Tara builds a new team of friends outside of the Dublin A-list, including her street-smart gay assistant and the hunky owner of the Brooklyn-style cafe where she sets up her new office.
"We can only really maintain that distance from that food for so long before we eventually just say, Screw it, throw our hands up, and allow ourselves to have it," Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition, previously told Refinery29.
"When you bring a kid from a refugee camp, he's street-smart, savvy," said Nadar al-Demary, a trainer from Jabal al-Mukaber who works and teaches at the stable and riding school in Tur, with a view all the way to the Dead Sea.
"We can only really maintain that distance from [the food we crave] for so long before we eventually just say, Screw it, throw our hands up, and allow ourselves to have it," Cara Harbstreet, MS, RD, LD, of Street Smart Nutrition, previously told Refinery29.
It's a novel that announces the debut of a preternaturally gifted new writer — a writer who at the age of 24 demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time.
With 8.3 inches of ground clearance, it rides about two inches higher off the ground than the street-smart version of the V90, which puts it well into crossover country and endows it with a pretty capable rough-road ride without ruining its comfort and handling on pavement.
Instead of being the "chosen one," now he's the least street-smart hero in a group where his power, a glowing fist that only works roughly half the time, is overshadowed by those of the other three members, whose superpowers work every single time and are far more useful.
Mr. Ali, who spoke in the interview, as he does in his videos, in a street-smart Arabic slang, has detailed incidents of corruption and mismanagement of state funds, which he said was conducted under the close watch of Mr. el-Sisi and his closest circles within the army.
Kelley tells Chig's and Carlyle's separate stories mostly straight, but in between he grabs language by its edges and bends it as far as he can, in order to pull the bourgeois, Ivy-educated Chig and the impoverished, street-smart Carlyle into a single consciousness, made of their common national history.
For Ramona—the maternal, street-smart, Bronx-bred mastermind behind the scheme, and truly a role Lopez was born to play—the club is a means of survival that also affords her the luxuries she desires (Gucci shoes, an Escalade) and the ability to give her daughter the advantages she didn't have.
"One of the things we tell other people that ask us is that just the life experience of being on the road and meeting all kinds of different people, having to learn how to communicate with literally people all over the world, the kind of street smart value of that alone makes the kids turn out very smart," John said.
Even Lamberth, who spearheaded damage control after those 14 hours and has maintained a good relationship with the Pate family — he was the only white participant of last year's 5K walk for ShyShy — has repeatedly described ShyShy as "street-smart" in interviews over the years, as if the 8-year-old could or should have known better than to be kidnapped.
His rejection notice, here, cites his "inadequate personality," presumably a code for homosexuality; Robbins had romances with men and women throughout his life.) That urban aim would come to fruition in "Fancy Free" (230), in which three sailors on shore leave — including Robbins as the third, swaggering soloist — engage in a dance-off to woo New York's street-smart single ladies.
There's actually a fun John Connor vibe to the young girl's combination of street-smart fighting and vulnerability, and that feeling is only emphasized when it becomes clear the film is set in some sort of near-future dystopia, where the loss of the Autobots have created a Terminator future-war scenario when humans fight against all machines, no matter what side they happen to be on.
It was pure madness, even for a street smart pre-teen whose day-to-day existence in the late 70s centered on finding stores that were easy to shoplift food from, bathing in fire hydrants, and playing in punk rock bands, first as a drummer with The Stimulators, and later as a bassist for the Cro-Mags—the band that came to define New York hardcore.
Most Aquarians are an equal blend of book smart and street smart, but getting swindled can happen to anyone and if you find yourself in a situation that's less than ideal, take it as a lesson—and if you find yourself beating yourself up over it, try to be gentle with yourself and reach out to someone who has been there, done that, and can lend an ear.
"Without the racism…" Paul quickly clarified that isn&apost the case and that Cranston should move on, but his own desire to bring back the show is exposed when a Sony Studios tour guide catches Paul not performing the job he begged for ─ leading a tour group ─ so he could stay close to the RV. Although the sketch is meant to be in good humor, it similarly echoed the clash between their respective "Breaking Bad" characters — Cranston as mastermind high school chemistry teacher Walter White and Paul as street-smart dropout Jesse Pinkman.

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