Book smart vs street smart.

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Book smart vs street smart

Book smart is simply describing that the person as generally intelligent, well educated and do well academically. However, the underlying idea is that the person deals with situations (especially bad or difficult situations) from an intellectual direction, using or basing decisions on facts, knowledge or insights gained chiefly from books or structured experiences (e.g. studying).

That is in contrast to street smart, which describes the person as having common sense, knowing the ways of the world -- how things are done or doable in real life. The underlying idea is such a person deals with matters at hand from a more practical direction with more pragmatic considerations. In short, intelligence not from books but from real life and personal experience.