bee's dick

English

Etymology

A humorous allusion to how short the penis of a bee would be.

Noun

bee's dick

1. (Australia, vulgar, 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.