What is the origin of the phrase ';the bee's knees';?

I know it was a terrorist but that is all I know.What is the origin of the phrase ';the bee's knees';?
It's not an expression that can be fully explained. It's a cute rhyming phrase that means something excellent.





There's no profound reason to relate bees and knees (or honey) other than the jaunty-sounding rhyme. In the 1920s it was fashionable to devise nonsense terms for excellence - 'the snake's hips', 'the kipper's knickers';, 'the cat's pyjamas', 'the sardine's whiskers' etc.





Of these, the bee's knees and the cat's pyjamas are the only ones that have stood the test of time. More recently, we see the same thing - the 'dog's bollocks'.What is the origin of the phrase ';the bee's knees';?
It traditionally has nothing to do with terrorism but merely connotes ';something special';. Bees don't have knees so ';bees knees'; are something quite rare and special, indeed.
not terror related at all its from the 1920's after all.there was no such thing as a terrorist yet





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Bees store Honey in the region near their knees, so I'm assuming it means ';Honey';