clever with something

I shouldn't have tried to be clever with the gun.

I can certainly use the help of a man who is clever and good with a gun.

Young was not a strong man, nor clever with his hands, and Smith had put up the building almost alone.

He did have a curator on his staff who was very clever with these things.

He's said to have been rather clever with his investments.

Thank God her mother was so clever with a needle.

And you do something pretty clever with it usually but if they're just added, one bit at a time.

"We're going to have to get clever with these guys."

How anyone can be so clever with his hands is a mystery to me!

Unlike her father, she hadn't the education to be clever with words.