Usually means: Overly smart to one's detriment.
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  1. too clever by half: Merriam-Webster
  2. too clever by half: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. too clever by half: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (too clever by half)

adjective:  (idiomatic, of a person, plan, theory, etc.) Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful.

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