The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bee line
Bee line \Bee" line`\
The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a
bee to its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. ``A bee
line for the brig.''
--Kane.
Wikipedia
Bee line
A bee line means taking the shortest route or a straight line between two points (" As the crow flies"):
In transportation:
- Bee-Line Bus System of Westchester County, New York, United States
- Bee Line Buzz Company, a former bus operator in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
- Bee Line Expressway, an earlier name of Florida State Road 528 east of Orlando in the United States
- Beeline Highway (disambiguation), several highways
- Beeline, or Okmulgee Beeline, the section of U.S. Route 75 from Tulsa to Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States
- Bee Line Railroad, a railway in western Indiana, United States; serving Warren County and Benton County
- Butte Regional Transit, a public transit system in Butte County, California, United States
-
, the road, rail and ferry route between Hamburg (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark)
- BEE-LINE, Brussels Airlines callsign
and other meanings:
- Beeline (beekeeping), a method for locating a feral bee hive
- Beeline (brand), a telecommunications brand by VimpelCom Ltd. used in Russia, other post-Soviet states, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
- Vermilion snapper, a species of fish
- Beeline (album), a 2002 album by Peter Case
- Beeline (software company)
Usage examples of "bee line".
My ball made a bee line for the beach, bounced on a rock, and disappeared into a cave.
If you are good at it, and I am, you can find the bee line and follow it back to the bee tree.
This he struggled through, and ran toward the college, taking a bee line.