busy as a beaver/bee

Extremely industrious. The proverbial comparison to bees dates from Chaucer’s time. The one to beavers is newer, going back only to the seventeenth century; it also is put as works like a beaver and eager beaver. Among more recent proverbial comparisons for being busy, which liken it more to nervous overactivity than ambitiousness, is busy as a one-armed paperhanger, an Americanism dating from about 1910.

词组	busy as a beaver/bee
释义	busy as a beaver/bee busy as a beaver/bee Extremely industrious. The proverbial comparison to bees dates from Chaucer’s time. The one to beavers is newer, going back only to the seventeenth century; it also is put as works like a beaver and eager beaver. Among more recent proverbial comparisons for being busy, which liken it more to nervous overactivity than ambitiousness, is busy as a one-armed paperhanger, an Americanism dating from about 1910. See also: beaver, bee, busy The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: time on one's hands, (to have) (as) busy as a beaver (building a new dam) beaver building busy as a beaver dam work like a beaver work like a Trojan an apple a day (keeps the doctor away) drunk as a lord/skunk
随便看	(one's) day in court (one's) day on a plate one's days are numbered (one's) deepest sympathy one's deepest sympathy (one's) dogs are barking (one's) door is always open (one's) ears are burning one's ears are red (one's) ears are red one's ears are ringing (one's) ears are ringing one's egg money nodding acquaintance nodding acquaintance, a no deal no dice no diggity NODIS nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse nod off no doubt no doubt about it nod out nod the nut