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busy as a beaver
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*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.
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The upcoming Jewish New Year has kept apiarist Shai Spector, well, busy as a bee with customers swarming to his farm to quench the growing Israeli taste for gourmet honey.
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Without doubt this immense work by the bees gave birth to the phrase as busy as a bee.
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Byline: ANI Agarpara/Vedic village resort (WB), Mar 6 (ANI): Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is busy as a bee shooting for her upcoming movie 'Ravana' at Agarpara, a suburb on outskirts of Kolkata.
Aishwarya Rai shoots for her ensuing movie 'Ravana' near Kolkata by Asian News International
 
 
 
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