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bee's knees

British  

noun

  1. informal (functioning as singular) an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"They all assume we think we're the bee's knees," she confessed.

From BBC Jan. 17, 2025

“I think the genre is wide open right now in the best way ever,” he says as he orders another drink — a bee’s knees, to be exact — from a server.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2024

You’d be left with Washington, Oregon, Cal Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State as the bare-bones Pac-6, which was the bee’s knees in 1923 but not so viable in 2023.

From Seattle Times Aug. 3, 2023

And I think just knowing that her dad loves her and thinks that she's the bee's knees, I think that gives her so much strength and just kind of a place to come home to.

From Salon May 16, 2020

That’s where you get a little more serious about it, and you really think you’re the bee’s knees.

From The New Yorker Dec. 8, 2019

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