bee's dick
English
Etymology
A humorous allusion to how short the penis of a bee would be.
Noun
bee's dick (uncountable)
- (Australia, slang) A small amount.
- 1987, Mountain, number 113, page 34:
- We were within a bee's dick of trying it when one day we rounded the arete and BLAM! The council had obviously decided to avoid any "strollers in shark-nude-drug-torso-shock-horror collapse" and blasted the place to smithers.
- 1994, Richard Flanagan, Death of a river guide, page 16:
- I'm a bee's dick away from those people and that beautiful air they breathe and I can't reach it or them, or them me.
- 2015, Dean Munro, Breaking the Chains: Who Said Uni Students Couldn’t Get Rich?:
- The temptation was like holding a briefcase filled to the brim with $100 notes and placing it in a cage where you had just enough room to slide one of your arms between the bars and have your fingertips within a bee's dick of all that money.
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