bright spark vs wiseacre

bright spark

noun
  • A person who is intelligent, clever or quick-witted. 

wiseacre

noun
  • One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart. 

verb
  • To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack. 

How often have the words bright spark and wiseacre occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )