a real dynamo
a real dynamo
Someone who has boundless energy, enthusiasm, determination, or ability. A dynamo (short for dynamo-electric machine) was the first electric generator that could produce direct current for industrial purposes; the application of the term for a person implies that they are capable of creating a sustained force or productive energy. Once she is set on a task, she never lets up. She's a real dynamo on the job.
See also: real
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- stir the blood
- get (one's) teeth into (something)
- get one’s teeth into something
- sporting blood
- whirling dervish
- be running on fumes
- fume
- damn (someone or something) with faint praise
- damn someone or something with faint praise
- damn someone/something with faint praise