bee's knees

noun

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

Example Sentences

What was once the “bee’s knees” would later become “groovy” which changed to “fire.”

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

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From this period, innovation boomed, resulting in timeless classics like the Bee’s Knees, French 75 and Sidecar.

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“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.

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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.

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