ALL meanings of live by one's wits
wit
L l - noun live by one's wits the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee. 1
- noun live by one's wits speech or writing showing such perception and expression. Synonyms: banter, joking, witticism, quip, raillery, badinage, persiflage; bon mot. 1
- noun live by one's wits a person having or noted for such perception and expression. Synonyms: wag, jester, epigrammatist, satirist. 1
- noun live by one's wits understanding, intelligence, or sagacity; astuteness. Synonyms: wisdom, sense, mind. 1
- noun live by one's wits Usually, wits. powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, ingenious contrivance, or the like; mental acuity, composure, and resourcefulness: using one's wits to get ahead. Synonyms: cleverness, cunning, wisdom, insight, perspicacity, sacaciousness, acumen. mental faculties; senses: to lose one's wits; frightened out of one's wits. Synonyms: mind, sanity; brains, marbles. 1
- idioms live by one's wits at one's wit's end, at the end of one's ideas or mental resources; perplexed: My two-year-old won't eat anything but pizza, and I'm at my wit's end. 1
- idioms live by one's wits keep / have one's wits about one, to remain alert and observant; be prepared for or equal to anything: to keep your wits about you in a crisis. 1
- idioms live by one's wits live by one's wits, to provide for oneself by employing ingenuity or cunning; live precariously: We traveled around the world, living by our wits. 1
- noun live by one's wits to gain a livelihood by craftiness and cunning rather than by hard work 0
- noun live by one's wits to live by trickery or craftiness 0