pajama

cat's pajamas

Something or someone highly enjoyable, desirable, or impressive, especially in a fancy or elaborate way. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. Tom's new Cadillac is really the cat's pajamas! Boy, that singer last night was the cat's pajamas, wasn't she?

the cat's pajamas

A terrific thing. This was a nonsensical phrase of the 1920s that meant something worth seeing or having. A similar phrase was the “cat's meow.”

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lemuel	['lemjuəl]
Iseut	-	Medieval English
Vesa (1)	VE-sah	Finnish
Hall	[hɔ:l]
Sergej	syer-GYAY (Russian), seer-GYAY (Russian)	Russian, Bulgarian
Sample	['sæmpl]