busy beaver Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
an eager beaver
a person who is always willing to volunteer or do extra work.
as busy as a beaver
very busy, working steadily When the teacher returned, the students were as busy as beavers.
busy as a beaver
(See as busy as a beaver)
eager beaver
a person who wants to work Joan is the eager beaver in this class. She likes to work.
beaver
1. the female genitals, implying the inclusion of pubic hair
2. to work hard
beaver leaver
the penis
eager beaver|beaver|eager
n. phr.,
slang A person who is always eager to work or do anything extra, perhaps to win the favor of his leader or boss.
Jack likes his teacher and works hard for her, but his classmates call him an eager beaver. The man who was promoted to be manager was an eager beaver who got to work early and left late and was always offering to do extra work.
work like a beaver
work like a beaver Also,
work like a dog or
horse or
Trojan. Work very energetically and hard, as in
She worked like a beaver to clean out all the closets, or
I've been working like a dog weeding the garden, or
He's very strong and works like a horse. The first of these similes is the oldest, first recorded in 1741; the variants date from the second half of the 1800s. Also see
work one's fingers to the bone.
busy beaver
A actual busy, assiduous, or accomplished person. Taken from the byword "busy as a beaver," apropos to beavers' acceptability for actuality acutely industrious. Between alive two part-time jobs, volunteering on the weekends, and attractive afterwards his little brother, Sam's been a active aholic this summer.Learn more: beaver, busy