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Choose the option which best expresses the meaning of the given idiom.
The bee’s knees

The correct answer is

something excellent, highly thought of, or desirable

"The bee's knees" is an informal idiom that describes something or someone outstandingly good.

It is used as high praise, for example a new gadget that everyone thinks is excellent and desirable.

The idiom carries no sense of superficiality, questionable usefulness or undeserved praise, so the remaining meanings do not fit.

Hence, something excellent, highly thought of, or desirable.

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