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eager beaver
(redirected from eager-beaver)

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eager beaver
someone who is very enthusiastic; someone who works very hard. New volunteers are always eager beavers. The young assistant gets to work very early. She's a real eager beaver.
See also: beaver, eager


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He's an eager-beaver cadet who's thrilled to get his first assignment in a Paris precinct -- even though that means leaving his schoolteacher wife in provincial Normandy for long, lonesome stretches.
The teenage draftees and eager-beaver volunteers turned out to be good fighters, but their psychological problems were often huge.
After such a precedent, it became a simple matter for eager-beaver internationalists during the Bush and Clinton eras to dispatch American troops to the likes of Somalia, Kosovo, and Bosnia to fight on behalf of the United Nations.
 
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