Idiom
bee in one's bonnet
Meaning
Something of particular interest or concern; an obsession.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He has a bee in his bonnet about recycling everything.”
“My neighbor has a bee in his bonnet about the height of our fence, so he keeps complaining to the city.”
“The professor had a persistent bee in his bonnet regarding the misuse of statistics in modern research, often dedicating entire lectures to the topic.”
Examples
simple
“He has a bee in his bonnet about recycling everything.”
contextual
“My neighbor has a bee in his bonnet about the height of our fence, so he keeps complaining to the city.”
complex
“The professor had a persistent bee in his bonnet regarding the misuse of statistics in modern research, often dedicating entire lectures to the topic.”
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