She thinks her new car is the cat's pajamas.
the cat's pajamas
idiomAlternative spelling of the cat's pyjamas.
Everyone at the party thought the new jazz band was the cat's pajamas.
In the roaring twenties, people often used the phrase the cat's pajamas to describe something they found truly excellent.
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cat's cradle
Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.
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cat's meow
A self-satisfied person.
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look what the cat's dragged in
Used as an ironic acknowledgement of someone's arrival, either jocularly or to imply that they are unwelcome or disagreeable in some way.
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the cat's out of the bag
It is too late. Particularly used of secrets that have been exposed.
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the cat's pyjamas
A highly sought-after and fancy example of something, usually referring to inanimate objects.
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who's 'she', the cat's mother
A rebuke especially directed towards children for having referred to a woman in the nominative case as "she", instead of by her name or an appropriately respectful title.