be possessed with one thought or scheme
to be obsessed with an idea
The man has a real bee in his bonnet in trying to find out about how people would react in this situation.
I prefer not to show that I have a bee in my bonnet about this plan.
He’s got a real bee in his bonnet about people keeping many pets.
There is no origin for this idiom
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