Definitely people still use it in the UK. It originated in the US. This is what Oxford Dictionary has to say about it:
The Oxford English Dictionary records the expression 'bee's knee' as meaning the type of something small or insignificant from 1797. The plural form is US slang dating from the 1920s, when there was an explosion of terms meaning 'the acme of excellence': compare the cat's whiskers/pyjamas. The first example is dated 1923. Some of these have lasted, and some have not (the flea's eyebrows, the canary's tusks).
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In my opinion, this phrase is archaic in the US. Do people still use it elsewhere?
Definitely people still use it in the UK. It originated in the US. This is what Oxford Dictionary has to say about it:
The Oxford English Dictionary records the expression 'bee's knee' as meaning the type of something small or insignificant from 1797. The plural form is US slang dating from the 1920s, when there was an explosion of terms meaning 'the acme of excellence': compare the cat's whiskers/pyjamas. The first example is dated 1923. Some of these have lasted, and some have not (the flea's eyebrows, the canary's tusks).
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