Mike Causer wrote:
> rodbean@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> > Even so, any Elan is the bee's knees (I like that expression Mike).
>
> The current UK vernacular would say that it's the dog's bollocks. But
> I'm just using the phraseology of the time....
>
> Hmmm, Netscrap's spell checker wanted to replace bollocks with bollix
> which isn't in my Oxford Concise Dictionary at all!
>
> Mike
Probably American slang. BTW what's bollocks? Neither of those is in my
dictionary (American College).
But then, neither is "bee's knees" (sounds like something I've heard
Audrey say in To the Manor Born).
Rod
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