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bee's knees

noun

  1. informal.
    functioning as singular an excellent or ideally suitable person or thing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"They all assume we think we're the bee's knees," she confessed.

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From this period, innovation boomed, resulting in timeless classics like the Bee’s Knees, French 75 and Sidecar.

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“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.

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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.

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It’s roughly a quarterly ritual: A member of Congress—and it’s about 50-50 Democratic or Republican—says something deemed either antisemitic or anti-Israel, it blows up, and the House quickly votes on a resolution condemning antisemitism and affirming that Israel is the bee’s knees.

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