working bee
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There is nothing feminine about a working bee but its anatomy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jeremiah, the working bee, was less polished in manner and more careless in dress.
From The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 by A. M. W. Stirling
There's some talk of clearing it before the next meeting by means of a working bee.
From Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce
We have discovered the working bee in this great hive of organization.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
They swarmed, not to be industrious like the working bee, but to consume like the drone, and to do mischief like the wasp.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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