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1. "Well, it's quite simple really." A little of the old fluency was coming back. "This man's a member and he's got some bee in his bonnet about sailors, that they need converting more than any other part of the community." (J. Wain) 121 2. And he's got a bee in his bonnet about reintroduction of Arab blood into the English thoroughbred. (J. Galsworthy) 3. He's a pretty pure specimen himself, I believe, except for this bee in his bonnet. (J. Galsworthy) (4) to be fed up — to have had too much of something; to be tired of, bored with 1. It must have been a fiction, about being tired. She must have been fed up with Demoyte. (I. Murdoch) 1. You are going back on what you said about being rather fed-up with Bertrand, then? (K. Amis) 3. By the evening of the fifth day he was thoroughly fed up. (R. Aldington) 4. Of course, the thing's been dragging on for some time now. We'd been getting rather fed-up. (K. Amis) 86
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