smart money

基本解释

The smart money seems to think that business will get better so maybe it’s time to put some money into the stock market.
那些搞经济的专家们似乎认为商业会越来越好，所以，也许现在是把一些钱投资到股票市场去的时候了。
Something has to give in this tussle between general relativity and quantum mechanics, and the smart money says that it's relativity that will be the loser.
已有一些资金被投入到解决广义相对论和量子力学分歧的研究中，而这些明智的投资告诉我们相对论将是输家。
But never have so many big financial institutions—the oxymoronic “smart money”—been so bilked by an individual.
但是从没有如此多的金融机构被某个人如此的愚弄，尽管他们号称自己“精明理财”。

Smart card players, especially those who play for large amounts of money, closely watch the person who deals the cards.
A managed portfolio, you find somebody you think is really smart and you pay them a fair amount of money and in return they assert that they will pick winners for you, and in fact, you will outperform the stock market.
而代管投资组合就是说，你找一个你觉得很聪明的人,给他们一些钱,然后他们会说一定会帮你选出,赚钱的股票，实际上你会比股市整体表现要好。
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Call and I were right smart crabbers and we could always come home with a little money as well as crabs for dinner.

In the meantime, a lot of smart money is still betting on Tesla to fail.
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money that is bet (= risked) or invested (= put into something in order to make a profit) by people who know a lot about a subject

money bet or invested by experienced gamblers or investors, esp with inside information
the gamblers or investors themselves
If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.