Cat's pajamas

Idiom Learn english Excellent Outstanding

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00:00Cat's pajamas

00:03Something excellent or outstanding

00:06You know, I'm probably crossing a boundary telling you this but he thinks you're the cat's pajamas he really does

00:13Did he say that?

00:15Only every five minutes. Frankly, I'm sick of hearing it

00:21Please she is the cat's pajamas

00:23Why do people say that I have no idea maybe because she was in cats

00:27The idiom existed before the 1920s it traces back to England in the early

00:341800s when a tailor named a P cats sewed silk pajamas for royalty and upper-class people

00:40his brilliant work and tailoring garnered praise for cats's pajamas and he was

00:46Particularly favored by King George third in North America

00:50The term cats's pajamas was likely spread by commissioned officers during the period when the British Empire fell

00:58over time cats's pajamas evolved into cats pajamas

01:02popularized again by flappers in the

01:051920s