cat's whiskers
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Buck Newsom�also known as Bo-Bo and the Old Showboat�is the big cat's whiskers.
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He does not openly suggest green hair or cat's whiskers, which seem to come naturally to his audience.
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Broadcasting was then mostly stutter and static, and reception was mostly a matter of cat's whiskers and crystals.
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The bell rang and the light flashed as soon as the radar "cat's whiskers" brushed the rising ground.
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Their hearts and consciences might be as hard as flint, but their pocketbooks were as sensitive as a cat’s whiskers.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
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