BUSY AS A BEAVER Definition & Meaning

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Also, busy as a bee . Hardworking, very industrious, as in With all her activities, Sue is always busy as a bee , or Bob's busy as a beaver trying to finish painting before it rains . The comparison to beavers dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the late 1300s. Also see eager beaver ; work like a beaver .

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“I am busy as a beaver,” says Parton, ever a master of the folksy bon mot, “and about as dammed up.”

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Mary Anne Gibbon, who sits on the parish council and has belonged to Sacred Heart since 1980, said that the parish serves a largely low-income community and that Villalta is usually “busy as a beaver on roller skates” trying to help parishioners.

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“He’s like busy as a beaver – he’s assiduously working to extend the culture of the European right to America, and to make America a partner in this effort to derail democracy.”

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He must have been busy as a beaver during his fleeting school days.

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Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off.

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