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Bee-line
The line that a bee, takes in making for the hive; the shortest
distance between two given points.
“Our footmarks, seen afterwards, showed that we had steered a
bee-line to the brig.” —Kane: Arctic Explorations, vol. i.
chap. xvii. p. 198.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bee-line from Infoplease:
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