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be 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.

See also: feet, run

the bum's rush (American, informal)

the action of getting rid of someone who is not wanted. The photographer was given the bum's rush by two policemen guarding the office. Why do I feel I'm getting the bum's rush? Where are you off to?

Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread).

something that you say which means that stupid people do things without thinking about them enough. Alan volunteered to be chairman and now he regrets it. Fools rush in, is all I can say.

See also: Fool

[run around/rush around etc.] like a blue-arsed fly (British & Australian, informal)

to move around quickly trying to finish your work when you are very busy. I've been running around like a blue-arsed fly trying to get everything organized before I go on holiday.

See also: around, fly, like, run

a (sudden) rush of blood (to the head)

if you have a rush of blood to the head, you suddenly feel very excited or very angry, and do or say something silly. Thomson was sent off for head-butting Gray in a rush of blood to the head.

See also: blood