be run/rushed off (your) feet

to have to work very hard or very fast.

There's only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet.

We weren't exactly rushed off our feet - there was only one visitor all afternoon.

• have your ducks in a row
• have your ear to the ground
• have your end away
• have your eye on
• have your eye on someone
• have your eye on something
• have your feet on the ground
• have your finger on the button
• have your finger on the pulse
• have your fingers in the till
• have your guts for garters
• have your hand in the till
• have your hands full
• have your head in the clouds
• have your head screwed on
• have your head screwed on right
• have your head screwed on the right way
• have your head stuck up arse
• have your head stuck up your arse
• have your head up arse
• have your head up your arse
• have your heart set on
• have your heart set on doing something
• have your heart set on something
• have your knife into