灵气 | líng qì | spiritual influence (of mountains etc) / cleverness / ingeniousness | |
心眼 | xīn yǎn | heart / intention / conscience / consideration / cleverness / tolerance | |
聪明反被聪明误 | cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù | a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom) / cleverness may overreach itself / too smart for one's own good | |
卖乖 | mài guāi | to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by |