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(as) busy as a peddler

Very busy and industrious. I'm currently choreographing three plays, so I'm as busy as a peddler at the moment. Tom's always busy as a peddler working on some project or another. Between working two part-time jobs, volunteering on the weekends, and looking after his little brother, Sam's been busy as a peddler this summer.

pill peddler

slang Someone, especially a medical doctor, who is authorized to prescribe medication. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Being a psychiatrist is about a whole lot more than being a pill peddler—medication should be the very last resort when treating a patient. You shouldn't go to some pill peddler every time you have a cough. You're body doesn't need all those drugs in it.

*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.

busy as a beaver

Also, busy as a bee. Hardworking, very industrious, as in With all her activities, Sue is always busy as a bee, or Bob's busy as a beaver trying to finish painting before it rains. The comparison to beavers dates from the late 1700s, the variant from the late 1300s. Also see eager beaver; work like a beaver.

pill-pusher

and pill-roller and pill-peddler

n. a nickname for a physician. I went to the infirmary, but the pill-pusher wasn’t in. The lousy pill-roller just gave me some aspirin.

pill-peddler

verb

See pill-pusher

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In yet another crackdown against drug peddlers, a team of PS Waris Khan caught two narcotics suppliers and seized 1800 grams of Charas from their possession.

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THE GOA government on Friday suspended five police personnel, after a sting operation revealed their alleged nexus with some drug peddlers.

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"Louvey, louvey, buy cheap, buy cheap!" the peddlers screamed, a disorganized chorus with knock-offs dangling from their arms.

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The police officer has been identified as Raja Adil, who is said to be posted as assistant sub inspector in Police Station Saddar Bairooni whereas the drug peddler was identified as Sana.

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It is pertinent to mention here that Sindh Minister for Excise and Taxation and Narcotics Control and Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla, while taking the news of using drugs in educational institutions, has formed a special task force to nab the drug peddlers.

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"Drug peddler, identified as Chukwuma Christian, 21, is a resident of Ontshe in Nigeria.

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The jury also found that Silvestri and Seafood Peddler illegally retaliated against five employees by firing them based on their suspicion that the employees had talked to the department's Wage and Hour Division investigators.

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-VAR of the broken stand of Yusuf, a peddler was selling the kokorec(Grilled sheep intestines)

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Murphy, who was deputising for the injured Jason Maguire on Peddler's Cross, reckoned McCain's charge was foot perfect.