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词组 be rushed off your feet
释义
Idiom
be rushed off your feetbe run/rushed off (your) feet
to have to work very hard or very fast.
There's only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet.We weren't exactly rushed off our feet - there was only one visitor all afternoon.
idiombe rushed off your feet(also be run off your feet BrE)to be extremely busy:Look, Jerry, we're rushed off our feet. Come and see me on Monday when everything's quieter.The police are being as helpful as they can be, but all the emergency services are being run off their feet at the moment.
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be rushed 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 servers are going to be rushed off their feet. With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I wasn't rushed off my feet.

rushed off your feet

BRITISH
If you are rushed off your feet, you are very busy. Now we have fewer staff in this department, I'm rushed off my feet. You've been rushed off your feet all day, but what have you actually achieved?

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.
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