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bee's knees

British

noun

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

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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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