wit
- wit
noun
1 clever use of words
ADJECTIVE
▪ great
▪ quick, ready
▪ acerbic, barbed, biting, caustic, dry, mordant, rapier, razor-sharp, sarcastic, sardonic, sharp, sly, wicked, wry
▪ gentle, self-deprecating
▪ dazzling (esp. BrE), sparkling
▪ verbal
VERB + WIT
▪ have
▪ He has plenty of wit and imagination.
▪ He had a dry wit. (BrE)
PHRASES
▪ wit and wisdom
▪ a book full of the wit and wisdom of his 30 years in politics
2 intelligence
ADJECTIVE
▪ native
▪ She had to use all her native wit to convince the police.
VERB + WIT
▪ have
▪ I hope he has the wit to take the key with him.
▪ use
PHRASES
▪ beyond the wit of man (= impossible) (esp. BrE)
▪ It should not be beyond the wit of man to resolve this dispute.
3 wits ability to think quickly
VERB + WITS
▪ use
▪ have (esp. AmE)
▪ I hope you had the wits to apologize.
▪ gather, recover
▪ She couldn't seem to gather her wits and tell us what had happened.
▪ sharpen
▪ match
▪ The game allows you to match wits with a computer criminal.
PHRASES
▪ a battle of wits
▪ The strike developed into a battle of wits between management and workers.
▪ have your wits about you, keep your wits about you
▪ They do tough interviews, so you'll need to have your wits about you.
▪ pit your wits against sb (esp. BrE)
▪ Celebrity teams pit their wits against each other in this lively quiz show.
▪ scare the wits out of sb
▪ The latest news has scared the wits out of investors.
▪ I was scared out of my wits!
▪ wits' end
▪ I'm at my wits' end trying to cope with his moods.
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