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Curses! 🤓 Stellar clue though, jono. Thanks to the lovely mattrom for hosting the affair, and to you kind folks for the votes of course (whoa, jono).
Nifty clips. I had just been thinking what an awful actress Joan Crawford was when, lo and behold, there was Ann Baxter! The all-time worst. Ever seen her in The Ten Commandments? Hilarious. Imagine, she was Frank Lloyd Wright’s granddaughter.

On the subject of Onions, my OED was printed in1973 and was edited by the English lexicographer Charles Talbut Onions, better known as C. T. Onions.

It has been suggested that this is where the phrase “know one’s onions” derives from but in fact it is earlier than that and can be traced with certainty to 1920s America … and with less certainty much, much further back … even to the 1500’s.

And then there’s Oliver Onions. Great name. Author of Widdershins. (As if you guys don’t know that.)

Well done Jono. Thanks for hosting Mattrom.
Thanks for the votes.

Congrats jono and thanks mattrom.

I've heard "the cat's pyjamas", but never "the cat's meow" in that sense.

In one edition of Douglas Adams's The meaning of liff (not to the one I have to hand, unfortunately), I think he defines "Ebsworth" as "the distance from which sheep appear attractive". He then adds that the original line from Gone with the wind was "Frankly, my dear, I don't give an ebsworth", but this was changed for US audiences...

Bravo, jono. Hard luck, aristo. Thanks to jono, again, and amej for the votes. And a big thanks to mattrom for the hosting. Those tiebreakers are tough to figure.

btw thanks for the vote, paul!

Very nice Jono.
Great clue too Aristo
Thanks Mattrom