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151. The Bee's Knees

The Allusionist

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Yer Cat's Pajamas

Yer cat's pajamas might have stuck a bit more because cat was also flapper slang for a fashionable young woman. And then you get like a cat becoming a jaz term, like hep cat. It could be the cat's gloves orther, all the clothes the cats don't wear. There isony a cats brogues. I think, every time i read that now, i will think, flea's eyebrows kippers. He why didn't you say that instead as niggers? Oh, here, sir. So this ne on a bad hat, which i think comes up all over the mystery fiction from twenties, thirties, forties. But

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