bee's knees
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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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