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bright-eyed and bushy-tailed



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Idioms and Phrases

Eager and alert, as in Here is my new kindergarten class, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed . The allusion here is to the appearance of a squirrel, which with its beady eyes and bushy tail looks ready for anything. [1930s]
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I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.

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I do think a lot of times female protagonists have been very young and bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and very plucky.

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Obviously with Marge, you can tell she’s somebody who is kind of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and finds herself in this place and hasn’t had a lot of experience.

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While some of us may be going into 2024 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Trump’s legal team seems to have spent the first week of the new year hunkered down with court filings.

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Not many of Bridges’ students, for instance, are as “bright-eyed and bushy-tailed†as she was in her first year.

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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