Skillful showoff

Usage examples of hotshot.

No way would she let another hotshot flyboy interfere with her career.

And you know, the third of November the three new associates-Robbie from Blackstone and two hotshots from Easton and Harvard-get the afternoon off to be sworn in.

Knolte and a couple of other young hotshots were studying maps and talking on their cell phones.

Not the drubbing you gave those four hotshots, she thought, and smiled despite herself.

Back in Cawker City, Kansas, he was the kid who went out for football when he was fifteen pounds underweight, ran for class president against the biggest hotshot in school and asked the most popular girl to the prom.

The sorcerer might be a hotshot at magic and he was certainly a conniver of real ability, but he was sure as hell no judge of character.

We've got hotshot hustlers who deal in bank paper, tax shelters, penny stocks, commodity straddles, mortgages and things like that.

We've got all kinds of exotic cover in this trade from hotshot international journalist to butterfly collector but in local situations you don't need more than a tea tray.

In early November, that arrangement was abruptly terminated when a hotshot efficiency expert was transferred to Santa Teresa from the CF branch office in Palm Springs.

Gran, seated beside me, put one hand on my knee and one hand on the knee of Doc Szandor's brother-in-law, a hotshot Harvard Law post-doc whom we'd retained as corporate counsel for a new Limited Liability Corporation.

In my mind he became a hotshot sales executive, a couple of years younger than me, with a wife who looked like Joan Linwood and two sons who started on the high school football team.

Youre supposed to be my hotshot computer security consultant, remember?

Braden needed or at least wanted the money that the promotion would bring, only to see the promotions go to the hotshots in Narcotics and Homicide while he slaved away& and why not take the goddamned money?

The wave guide takes it to the hotshot table, which injects it into your brain and —.

Maybe she was the local hotshot, somebody who'd moved in after he left, and she was pulling the equivalent of the young gun going after the old gunfighter.