birds and bees

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birds and bees pl (plural only)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Informal education about sex.
    Synonym: facts of life
    We learned about birds and bees back in school.
  2. (euphemistic, idiomatic) Informal (by analogy) sex itself.
    I had the birds and bees with your mother.

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