Brewer's: Clerkly

Cleverly; like a scholar.

“I thank you, gentle servant: `tis very clerkly done.”

Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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