cat's whiskers

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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.

From BBC

Ms. Wyckoff was stroking her cat’s whiskers.

From New York Times