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The Bees Knees - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Google ngrams show recent (certainly since 2000) surges in usage of 'bee's knees' both in their US and UK corpora, but a brief look at examples does indeed seem to indicate almost all are in period or whimsical styles
Why the opposite meanings of the word “bollocks”? 7 There were a lot of phrases created in the early part of the last century that were very much playing with language to create a ridiculous phrase meaning something that was good - that' gives us "the bees' knees", "the cat's whiskers" and similar things "The dogs bollocks" is a modern take on that
Is the needed here: the almost 50 species of bumble bees . . . ? If we remove the definite article, we get a different meaning entirely: Almost 50 species of bumble bees in the United States are well adapted for doing their job! Now, "almost 50 species of" is restricting the subject of the sentence, rather than describing it Rather than two separate facts combined together, we have one: In the United States, there are almost 50 species of bumble bees which
expressions - Origin and meaning of You catch more flies with honey . . . I risk confusing the jadarnel with this aside, but a funny observation has been made that you actually attract more fruit flies with vinegar than honey, because the acetic acid in vinegar makes them think they sense fruit Of course, the point stands that you can get what you want done better with sweetness kindness rather than with a caustic attitude
Is there an informal term for the best company in an industry? I am looking for an informal term or an expression to define the best company (the more competitive and successful) within a specific industry A similar example is the expression "killer applica
expressions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Any similar word construct works, such as "flea's knees", "burt's bees", or even "smile please!" Other words that just have an "ee" or an "s" sound at the end can also be used, though are less common One example I can think of is in the video game Earthbound, a magical camera man asks you to say "Fuzzy Pickles!"