Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man and today these bees and I are getting together to teach you a thing or two about English idioms I bet you’ve never been taught by a bee before look at them all working away Busy buzzy bees Buzzzzz Buzzzzzz In English if somebody's very busy or is moving around quickly doing lots of things we can say that busy as a bee Busy as a bee What else do we know about bees? My favourite Runny honey, I love honey In fact, I think it's the bee’s knees Now, I know what you’re thinking what are you talking about you silly man the bee’s knees In english if we think that something is excellent or the very highest quality we can say it's the bee’s knees The bee’s knees like my lessons they’re the bee’s knees (Booing) they may make yummy, runny honey but never forget that bees have a nasty side they sting You wouldn’t want one to fly up here into your hat or bonnet as we call this old-fashioned lady’s hat how would you feel if you had the bee in your bonnet extremely worried In english if someone is very worried or concerned about something and they talk about it all the time we can say they got a bee in their bonnet to have a bee in your bonnet Hold on
B1 UK bee bonnet busy honey runny hat Bee Idioms - BBC Learning English 6877 403 姚易辰 posted on 2013/08/14 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary