MjrMajorMajor wrote:
I'm bared before a snarling bear, I see.
Homonyms....the more you know..

Smartarse

... although, strictly speaking, they're really "homophones".
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)