What does bee line mean?
Bee line means A very direct or quick path or trip..
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/ˈbiːlaɪn/ · noun
A very direct or quick path or trip..
to make / strike a beeline for / to something
The children made a beeline to the swimming pool.
Discussing these and kindred topics they made a beeline across the back of the Customhouse and passed under the Loop Line bridge where a brazier of coke burning in front of a sentrybox or something like one attracted their rather lagging footsteps.
Hershie made a beeline for Thomas's table, not making eye-contact with the others — old-guard activists who still saw him as a tool of the war-machine.
A uniformed policeman came off the elevator and beelined for the nurse's station. I beelined into the stairwell. I wasn't in the mood for chatting with the police.
Suddenly, a woman beelines to the president, climbs to join him on his platform, there’s no security around to stop her and leans in for a kiss.
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Bee line means A very direct or quick path or trip..
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to make / strike a beeline for / to something
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