Mr. Tom Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Bee in the bonnet
Hi
I was slightly surprised to see the N-gram of these idioms. Would you say that in reality "bee in the bonnet" is as rarely used as the N-gram shows?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fly+in+the+ointment%2C+long+in+the+tooth%2C+bee+in+the+bonnet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfly%20in%20the%20ointment%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clong%20in%20the%20tooth%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbee%20in%20the%20bonnet%3B%2Cc0
Thanks,
Tom
I was slightly surprised to see the N-gram of these idioms. Would you say that in reality "bee in the bonnet" is as rarely used as the N-gram shows?
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fly+in+the+ointment%2C+long+in+the+tooth%2C+bee+in+the+bonnet&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfly%20in%20the%20ointment%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clong%20in%20the%20tooth%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cbee%20in%20the%20bonnet%3B%2Cc0
Thanks,
Tom
Top answer
Mr. Tom Would you say that in reality "bee in the bonnet" is as rarely used as the N-gram shows? Yes.
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Mr. TomWould you say that in reality "bee in the bonnet" is as rarely used as the N-gram shows?Yes. My old rural granny used to use it.
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