be run off your feet
be run off (one's) feet
To be exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree; to be made to work very hard and very quickly. We have three parties of 40 scheduled for the dining room this evening, so all of our floor staff are going to be run off their feet. With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I wasn't run off my feet.
See also: feet, off, run
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be run off your feet
If you are run off your feet, you are very busy. The poor girl was run off her feet with five children.
See also: feet, off, run
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
be run off your feet
be kept extremely busy. informalSee also: feet, off, run
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
be/get ˌrun/ˌrushed off your ˈfeet
be very busy: In the last few days before the holidays, the sales assistants were rushed off their feet.See also: feet, get, off, run, rush
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
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- be rushed off (one's) feet
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- rushed off your feet
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- put in a hard day's work
- put in a hard day at work