busy bee

busy bee

One who is very active, industrious, or busy. I'm currently choreographing three plays, so I'm a real busy bee. Can we meet next week instead? I'm a busy bee right now.
See also: bee, busy
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a busy bee

If you describe someone as a busy bee, you mean that they enjoy doing a lot of things and always keep themselves busy. `I enjoyed being a busy bee, getting things done,' she said in her confident way. Note: You can also say that someone is as busy as a bee. He is busy as a bee designing every production in London.
See also: bee, busy
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

busy bee

an industrious person
See also: bee, busy
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

a ˌbusy ˈbee

(informal) a cheerful and busy person
See also: bee, busy
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • a busy bee
  • as busy as a bee
  • be (as) busy as a bee
  • busy as a bee
  • (as) busy as a bee
  • (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet
  • popcorn
  • (as) busy as a one-armed paperhanger (with an itch)
  • itch
  • paperhanger
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To create organizational systems that make send to you, your staff, and your family," says Vicki Gretsky Owner of Busy Bee Organizing.
For the many gifts they've given to the community, we salute the Lovely family and the Busy Bee Nursey."
After a run-in with the law, Busy Bee Bikes has reopened at 437 East 6th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A.
Busy Busy Bee is named after a shoe shop in Newmarket, which is owned by an original part-owner of the filly who has since sold his share.
It would be a real disservice to the people to not bring back our Busy Bee, HMS Manchester."
Children will be invited to find six busy bees hidden all around the garden centre and answer questions to receive a sticker.
Blue Go Mad in Ibiza Tuesday, ITV2, 9pm) The boys in Blue have had a rather busy year, what with their Big Reunion commitments (and of course, Simon Webbe was a busy bee with Strictly).
BRITAIN'S biggest nursery school chain, Leapfrog, has been bought for pounds 31million by rivals Busy Bee.
Wolverhampton: 7.00 Busy Busy Bee, 8.00 Little Brave, 8.30 Harvey Leader, 9.30 Love`s Design.
Having world-class personal coaches helped nursery nurses Sharon Cura, Clair Wishart and Kelly Mackintosh, from the Busy Bee Nursery, to keep their buzz.
LIVERPOOL-BORN Sir Terry Leahy, above, is a busy bee. Expanding his dominant Tesco empire across the Atlantic.
of Garden City, NY announces that the brokerage company has sold the building formerly occupied by the Busy Bee Flea Market (purchased in 1984) to Kohl's Department Store.
See him as more of a busy bee, do all those little jobs you said you would.
Busy Busy Bee has been peppering the target of late without quite getting her head in front, but a repeat of her second to a useful sort here last time should suffice.
of Garden City, New York, announced that his brokerage company sold the building formerly occupied by the Busy Bee Flea Market, (purchased in 1984) to Kohl's Department Store.