Bee's knees?

[nq:1]Hi, I'm wondering where the expression "bee's knees" comes from. I heard it several times, from the context I take it to mean something good. Just curious, what does it exactly mean and what's the origin of this expression? Thanks, Leo[/nq]
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[nq:1]Hi, I'm wondering where the expression "bee's knees" comes from. I heard it several times, from the context I take it to mean something good. Just curious, what does it exactly mean and what's the origin of this expression? Thanks, Leo[/nq]
It's purely rhymey appealingness; that is, it refers to nothing (although bees do have knees of a sort, at least their little sextupulate legs are jo

[nq:1]"It's one of a set of nonsense catchphrases that originated in North America in the 1920s, the period of the ... survived,of which bee's knees is perhaps the best known, though cat's pyjamas (an exception to the anatomical rule) also survives."[/nq]
Now you're cooking with gas John.
Here in America though we spell it "cat's meow".

[nq:2]Hi, I'm wondering where the expression "bee's knees" comes from. ... mean and what's the origin of this expression? Thanks, Leo[/nq]
[nq:1]Michael Quinion has an answer at http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bee1.htm "It's one of a set of nonsense catchphrases that originated in North America ... li

A guy I know loves the expression "cooking with gas." He also favors the expression "that's the cat's ***." So much for meow and pajamas.

Mike G.

[nq:2]"It's one of a set of nonsense catchphrases that originated ... cat's pyjamas (an exception to the anatomical rule) also survives."[/nq]
[nq:1]Now you're cooking with gas John. Here in America though we spell it "cat's meow".[/nq]
We English have closed our eyes to so many horrors one more makes no difference ...

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:2]Michael Quinion has an answer at http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bee1.htm "It's one of ... yes, it means something really good. Like the orangutan's epiglottis.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's the axolotl's neotonous gills![/nq]
As they say in Mexico:
When you shake the ketchup bottle
First none wi

[nq:2]Hi, I'm wondering where the expression "bee's knees" comes from. ... mean and what's the origin of this expression? Thanks, Leo[/nq]
[nq:1]It's purely rhymey appealingness; that is, it refers to nothing (although bees do have knees of a sort, at least ... which, of course, refers to the grooves of analog musical recordings on vinyl or acetate, or even earlier, tin, media.[/nq]
Slow d

[nq:1]Michael Quinion has an answer at http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bee1.htm "It's one of a set of nonsense catchphrases that originated in North America ... quality to a part of an animal. You might at that period have heard such curious concoctions as cat's miaow,[/nq]
For the lack of something

[nq:1]Hi, I'm wondering where the expression "bee's knees" comes from. I heard it several times, from the context I take it to mean something good. Just curious, what does it exactly mean and what's the origin of this expression? Thanks, Leo[/nq]
Thanks all for playing around with this and clearing it up... Now I wonder what "righpondinentally" means.. :-/
Leo