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Where does the phrase the bees knees originate from? The earliest 1907 makes the pun on business, some are just nonsense, and several 1922s are in the form [somebody something]'s the bees' knees Here's the 1907 Mr Goggles by Henry Collins Brown: Bee-raising is a good side line for the farmer, especially since the swell restaurants have made a specialty of fried bees' knees Such a beesness!
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”? 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
punctuation - Im looking for the possessive of boss - English . . . The Bees’ Knees Besides the no-double-inflections phonologic law, there’s another odd phonologic law that can block inflectional |s| in speech in a very few rare words It is this: Words ending in unstressed i:z also (normally) suppress adding any |s| inflection
Is there an informal term for the best company in an industry? @alfreema or cat's whiskers, or bees knees, or dog's bollocks we seem to have an amusingly large stock of idioms meaning "best thing" that are body parts of animals – John Clifford Commented Mar 11, 2016 at 15:08
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!"
etymology - If something is considered the best why is it said to be . . . @Hugo: It's all relative, obviously But no-one here yet seems to be claiming familiarity with the usage, so I think it's fair to say it's already "moribund" By contrast, although many people would probably say the bees knees and the cat's pyjamas are "dated", at least they do actually know those terms –
You are on your knees - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "I will consider clemency in this case, given that you are clearly on your knees " - in this example the phrase is used figuratively, meaning the individual is submissive or in a wretched state on one's knees: phrase of knee - in a kneeling position on the verge of collapse "when they took over, the newspaper was on its knees" Hope this helps