71. to get wise : to learn to understand the methods or behavior of (esp. someone dishonest) / to learn about something kept secret from you

• I've got wise to him and his game.

• One girl pretended to be sick on gym days when she had athletics, until the teacher got wise and made her go anyway.

• The boys got wise to Jack's fondness for bubble gum.

• If you don't get wise to yourself and start studying, you will fail the course.

72. to put wise : to tell (someone) facts that will give him an average over others or make him alert to opportunity or danger

• The new boy did not know that Jim was playing a trick on him, so I put him wise. (= I told him that Jim was playing a trick on him.)

• Someone put the police wise to the plan of the bank robbers, and when the robbers went into the bank, the police were waiting to catch them.

73. none the wiser : (adj) knowing no more, after being told

• He explained it all to me, but I was none the wiser.

74. the wiser : (adj) knowing about something which might be embarrassing of knowing, usually used with nobody or no one

• Mary took the teacher's book home by mistake, but early the next morning she returned it with nobody the wiser. (Mary put the teacher's book back before the teacher noticed it was missing.) 

75. penny wise and pound foolish : (adj) wise or careful in small things but not careful enough in important things

• Mr.Smith's fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn't spend money to paint it. He is penny wise and pound foolish. (Mr.Smith would not spend money to buy paint, so he may have to spend more money to build a new fence.)

• Everything that first year wasn't awful. There were things I liked: the autonomy to design and build a new pilot plant for PPO(polyphenylene oxide) and the sense of being part of a team in what felt like a small company.
   I worked closely with Dr. Al Gowan, who joined GE the same month as I did. He ran the earliest experiments on the new plastic in beakers. I designed the kettles to test the bigger batches and built them at a local machine shop. We constructed a pilot plant from scratch in a small outbuilding in the back of our offices. Each day, we'd run several experiments, testing different processes.
   For someone just off a college campus, it was a real adventure.
   Working with a new plastic like PPO, we needed all the scientific help we could get. So at least twice a month, I'd jump into my car and drive 55 miles to GE's central research and development lab in Schenectady, New York, where the plastic was invented. I'd spend the day working with researchers and scientists, always trying to excite them about the product's potential. ...<중략> I looked forward to those trips to the R&D lab because it was fun "selling" my project -  and the lab was a real help. These trips turned to be relatively lucrative. I could make the trip in my VW for a buck of gas - four gallons at 25 cents a gallon - and GE would pay seven cents a mile to use my own car. So I'd pocket something like seven bucks on every trip I made to Schenectady. It seems crazy now, but all of us would drive somewhere at the drop of a hat to get a little extra cash.
   In spite of the good stuff, I was getting more frustrated every day. The penny-wise behavior that started that first week continued. In a redbrick building on Plastics Avenue, four of us shared a small, cramped office. We had to make do with only two phones, scrambling to pass them around the desks. On business trips, Burt asked us to double up in hotel rooms.
  [Jack - Straight from the gut written by Jack Welch(전 美 GE 社 회장)]
  

76. wise men : 동방박사

• Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and have come to worship Him."
  [The Gospel According to MATTHEW-Ch.2-L1~2]

77. wisdom : (n) 
① the quality of being wise; good sense and judgement

• I would question the wisdom of borrowing such a large sum of money.

• a man of great wisdom

② knowledge gained through learning or experience

• the wisdom of the ancients

• folk wisdom

• According to the received/conventional wisdom in these matters (= what is generally believed to be true) the voters usually make their choice on the basisi of domestic issues.

• wisdom tooth : the back tooth on each side of each jaw in human beings, the third molar, appearing usually between the ages of 17 and 25/사랑니
  to cut one's wisdom teeth : 철이 들 나이가 되다

78. wiseacre : (n) a person who acts as though he were much wiser than he really is

• Some wiseacre has said that a genius is a man who "wears long hair, eats queer food, lives alone, and serves as a target for the joke makers." A better definition of a genius is, " a man who has discovered how to increase the vibrations of thought to the point where he can freely communicate with sources of knowledge not available through the ordinary rate of vibration of thought." 
  [Think and Grow Rich written by Napoleon Hill - p264]

79. wisecrack :
(n) a clever joking remark or reply
(vi) to make a wisecrack or wisecracks

• his jovial, wisecracking manner

• wisecracker : (n) a person who makes a wisecrack or wisecracks
   
  On Friday afternoon, she met with each group separately. "Wouldn't it be neat to work in a place where you could have as much fun as the guys do at the Pike Place Fish market ?" she asked. There were a few nods and some smiles as the image of a flying fish passed through their minds. Stephanie had the biggest smile of all. Then reality set in.
   In both groups, protest followed the initial smiles. "We don't sell fish !" mark said. "We don't have anything to throw," added Beth. "It's a guy thing," contributed Ann. "Our work is boring." said another. One wisecracker said, "Let's throw the purchase orders."
   "You're right; this is not a fish market; what we do is different. What I'm asking is: Are you interested in having a place to work which has as much energy as the world famous Pike Place Fish market ?" A place where you smile more often. A place where you have positive feelings about what you do and the way you do it. A place you look forward to being at each day. You've already demonstrated that in many ways we can choose our attitude. Are you interested in taking it further ?" .... <중략> . The wisecracker popped up again, "Well, if we can't throw the purchase orders paper, can't we at least throw the confetti from the shredder ?" Laughter filled the room. That feels good, she thought.
  [Fish written by Stephen C.Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and John Christensen]

80. streetwise : (adj) clever enough to succeed and live well in the hard world of the city streets

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