What is The Bees Knees?
1.
excellent - the highest quality.
Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacks on their legs. It is tempting to explain this phrase as alluding to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee's knee.
Alison: Swanson, I think you're wonderful.
Swanson: Well, Alison, I think you're the bees knees.
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2.
an excellent dessert, originating on September 22nd, 2008 consisting of a grahmn cracker shmeared with peanut butter, toppoed with a layer of pudding with a pretzel and chocolate chips. The fuckin bees knees
holy shit phil, this stuff is the bees knees!
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