cranberry

Related to cranberry: cranberry juice

(as) busy as a cranberry merchant (at Thanksgiving)

Very busy. Cranberries are a popular Thanksgiving side dish. I'm currently choreographing three plays, so I'm busy as a cranberry merchant at Thanksgiving. Can we meet next week instead? I'm just as busy as a cranberry merchant right now.
See also: busy, cranberry, merchant
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*busy as a beaver (building a new dam)

 and *busy as a bee; *busy as a one-armed paperhanger; *busy as Grand Central Station; *busy as a cat on a hot tin roof; *busy as a fish peddler in Lent; *busy as a cranberry merchant (at Thanksgiving); *busy as popcorn on a skillet
very busy. (*Also: as ~.) My boss keeps me as busy as a one-armed paperhanger. I don't have time to talk to you. I'm as busy as a beaver. When the tourist season starts, this store is busy as Grand Central Station. Sorry I can't go to lunch with you. I'm as busy as a beaver building a new dam. Prying into other folks' business kept him busy as popcorn on a skillet.
See also: beaver, busy
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

busy as a beaver

Also, busy as a bee. Hardworking, very industrious, as in With all her activities, Sue is always busy as a bee, or Bob's busy as a beaver trying to finish painting before it rains. The comparison to beavers dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the late 1300s. Also see eager beaver; work like a beaver.
See also: beaver, busy
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
See also:
  • (as) busy as a cranberry merchant (at Thanksgiving)
  • merchant
  • busy bee
  • a busy bee
  • (as) busy as popcorn on a skillet
  • popcorn
  • (as) busy as a bee
  • as busy as a bee
  • be (as) busy as a bee
  • busy as a bee
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At the museum, visitors stroll past a variety of exhibits and displays depicting the history of the local cranberry industry.
Currently, there are about a dozen published clinical trials on UTI prophylaxis with cranberry products (Table 1) in different populations, some of them with very low numbers of included patients.
Mark Blumenthal, ABC founder and executive director, and BAPP founder and director, added: "As with the case of other adulterated botanical materials on which we have reported, this new Laboratory Guidance Document provides a much-needed resource for industry and third-party analytical labs to ensure that they are using an analytical method that is robust and fit for purpose to detect the adulteration and fraud that is occurring in the global cranberry extract market.
There's a reason people love to make (https://www.oceanspray.com/en/Recipes/By-Course/Breads-and-Muffins/Cranberry-Banana-Bread) Ocean Spray's cranberry banana bread for Thanksgiving, and that's because it's such a simple, classic and delicious way to go.
That shimmy that the cranberry sauce makes owes itself to the pectin released in the process of cooking the berries.
Cranberry Seed Oil is manufactured by Nutrativa Global of Nekoosa, Wisconsin, which uses its proprietary cold-press extraction and ultrafiltration technology to create an oil rich in essential fatty acids and an absolute 1-micron in clarity.
Although not statistically significant, the results were consistent with a possible beneficial effect of cranberry. The lack of statistical significance may have been due to the study being underpowered.
Cranberry supplements may interact with some medications, including warfarin (Coumadin[R]), so if you decide to give the supplements a try, and you take other drugs, let your doctor or pharmacist know.
"We are here to teach everyone what it is like to be a cranberry farmer, how we grow them and --most importantly--how we harvest them," Carr says.
Sensitivity against cranberry concentrate was performed by putting its standard solution of 25, 50 and 100 ug dilution in 3 punched holes made in nutrient agar media.
"The benefits of cranberry for urinary tract health have been widely touted, and Genesis Today takes this product up a notch with a leading PAC level," says Jeff Brucker, vice president of marketing at Genesis Today.
According to the study, recently published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, drinking a 240ml glass of cranberry juice a day reduces symptomatic UTIs by nearly 40 per cent in women with recurrent UTIs reducing the burden of UTIs and reducing the antibiotic use associated with treating recurrent UTIs.
27 April 2016 - US-based content platform Cranberry has acquired online radio network WebmasterRadio.fm and has re-launched it as Cranberry Radio, the company said.
A new bioactive compound present in cranberry juice that has the potential to control urinary tract infections (UTIs) was identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and collaborators.
(Bloomberg) -- With cranberry prices at the lowest in a half century, Nodji Van Wychen has been forced to cut back on fertilizer, staff and pollinating bees just to keep her farm going near Pittsville, Wisconsin.