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the bee's knees

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Something or someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
    colloquial, dated, idiomatic, plural, plural-only
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bee, -'s, knee. Corbiculae.
    plural, plural-only

Equivalents

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Examples

“We had strawberry shortcake for breakfast on Saturday and the kids thought it was the bee’s knees.”
“I used to play⟳ in a band when I was younger. We had a few fans and we thought we were the bee’s knees.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

the Bible The Bight the bigs the biter bit the boat the bogs

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