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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Pyjamas. The term you're looking for is "the cat's pyjamas."
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bee's knees - 1923, a survivor of a fad around this year for slang terms denoting "excellence" and based on animal anatomy. Also existed in the more ribald version bee's nuts. Other versions that lasted through the century are cat's whiskers (1923), cat's pajamas, cat's meow. More obscure examples are canary's tusks, cat's nuts and flea's eyebrows. The linguistic custom was still alive in Britain at the end of the century, as attested by the appearance of dog's bollocks in 1989. Bee's knee was used from 1797 for "something insignificant." "
