be/get run/rushed 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. We're all run off our feet so much during the Christmas season that we can't wait for the holidays to be over!

See also: feet, off, run

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. We're all rushed off our feet so much during the Christmas season that we can't wait for the holidays to be over!

See also: feet, off, rush

get run off (one's) feet

To be made to work very hard and very quickly so that one is exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree. We have three parties of 40 scheduled for the dining room this evening, so all of our floor staff are going to get run off their feet. With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I didn't constantly get run off my feet. We all get run off our feet so much during the Christmas season that we can't wait for the holidays to be over!

See also: feet, get, off, run

get rushed off (one's) feet

To be made to work very hard and very quickly so that one is exceptionally busy, especially to an exhausting or exasperating degree. We have three parties of 40 scheduled for the dining room this evening, so all of our floor staff are going to get rushed off their feet. With three young kids, it's hard to remember a time when I didn't constantly get rushed off my feet. We all get rushed off our feet so much during the Christmas season that we can't wait for the holidays to be over!

See also: feet, get, off, rush

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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

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be run off your feet

be kept extremely busy. informal

See also: feet, off, run

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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

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