street smarts

 

street smarts

【口】城市環境中機警生存的能力;知悉城市世態的精明幹練

 

a shrewd ability to survive
in a dangerous urban environment

    精明                   倖存                    城市的

    [ʃrud]                                                 [ˋɝbən]

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“Street smarts”, usually plural, is the noun referring to
such knowledge and know-how gained from actually surviving on the street
instead of the classroom.

In other words, people who are
streetwise have a lot of practical knowledge to enable them to survive in tough
real-life situations. They are not bookworms who may have done well in school
but find it hard to cope with situations that ask for one's instincts, common
sense and perhaps sheer guts and fearlessness. 

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