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Significados de streetwise em inglês

Having the shrewd resourcefulness needed to survive in an urban environment.

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Examples for "street smart"
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Jimmi was twenty-six, beautiful and street smart, from the Pacoima projects.
Mooch
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Her voice was so familiar to me: lilting, slightly hoarse, street smart and kind.
Feminist dot com
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He might be pint-sized, but he was street smart.
Goodbye dolly
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She's also naive and not very street smart... she lived in her head a little bit.
The Guardian
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The Red or Dead 27 funky street smart specs are a great combination of plastic and metal.
Independent.ie
Uso de streetwise em inglês
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Nadia is tough, streetwise and, at least initially, difficult to take seriously.
The Irish Times
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Here and elsewhere, Smith casually interpolates classical influences into her sultry-but-streetwise tunes.
The Guardian
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Even Putin uses it from time to time, to reassert his streetwise credentials.
The Guardian
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Many teenagers end up mixing with older, more streetwise homeless people.
The Irish Times
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Duwayne was more streetwise than Stephen, and tried to protect him.
The Guardian
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Murrayfield will be bouncing so England must show they can be more streetwise.
The Guardian
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Slawek was big, streetwise, and had trained in some defense arts.
Existence
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He'd grown up on the streets of London, he's very streetwise.
The Guardian
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Today's kids are more likely to be reading about shape-shifters, shadows and streetwise vampires.
The Irish Times
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Intellectual and streetwise, punchy and philosophical, it is classic Bellow.
The Irish Times
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But now, they are rigid in their discipline and streetwise.
The Guardian
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It was the stock obscenity of the streetwise Cantonese-speaking male.
Lost in translation
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A lot of kids wag school here, but they're streetwise.
The Guardian
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After that, a more streetwise team than City might have shut the game down.
The Guardian
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Though sombre in mood, the attitude was streetwise and young, Parisian chic in straitened times.
The Irish Times
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On the marchThey are young, naive maybe, but more streetwise than previous generations of protesters.
The Irish Times
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