WORK LIKE A BEAVER Definition & Meaning

work like a beaver

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, work like a dog or horse or Trojan . Work very energetically and hard, as in She worked like a beaver to clean out all the closets , or I've been working like a dog weeding the garden , or He's very strong and works like a horse . The first of these similes is the oldest, first recorded in 1741; the variants date from the second half of the 1800s. Also see work one's fingers to the bone .

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The association between beavers and dutiful workers seems to have come later: Work like a beaver was used in the United States to describe conscientious employees as early as the 18 century, and eager beaver described overzealous employees as early as the 20.

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“A negro woman to be sold by the Printer of this paper; the very best negro woman in town; who has had the small-pox and measles; is as hearty as a horse, as brisk as a bird, and will work like a Beaver.”

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For years Miss Fanny's precarious finances induced her to part with a great flood of letters and manuscripts belonging to her father and Forger Spring had to work like a beaver to keep up with the demand.

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“Ah get ’im,” said Sam suddenly, and he dropped into the pit and began to work like a beaver.

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To "work like a beaver" is an almost universal expression for energetic persistence, but who realizes that the beaver has accomplished anything?

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