cat's whiskers

noun

1. slang,  a person or thing that is excellent or superior

Example Sentences

The early units consisted of a germanium crystal touched by two closely spaced fine wires—‘cat’s whiskers.’

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She smiles and her cuts outline her face like a cat’s whiskers.

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Over the last century, physicists have learned to explain some of the grandest and subtlest phenomena in nature — the arc of a rainbow, the scent of a gardenia, the twitch of a cat’s whiskers — as a handful of elementary particles interacting through four basic forces, playing a game of catch with force-carrying particles called bosons according to a set of equations called the Standard Model.

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Q. How come my cat’s whiskers are striped, with bands of white and brown on each one?

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It is 42 years this week since we first appeared together on a junior club show in Streatham, south-east London, at a boxing hotbed called The Cat's Whiskers.

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