put the bee on

put the bee on
a) to finish off, to beat

,2001: When Carmen quipped in, “Well, Mr. President somebody has to put the bee on them,” the General asserted, “It wont be me, never.” — Travis Beal Jacobs, Eisenhower at Columbia (Transaction 2001, p. 152)

b) to beg; to borrow money from

,1938: Sometimes Id see a woman in the backyard, and, if she had a kind face Id put the bee on her. — Clifford Robe Shaw, Henry Donald McKay, et al., Brothers in Crime (University of Chicago 1938, p. 157)


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