busy as a beaver
Example Sentences
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Mary Anne Gibbon, who sits on the parish council and has belonged to Sacred Heart since 1980, said that the parish serves a largely low-income community and that Villalta is usually “busy as a beaver on roller skates” trying to help parishioners.
From Washington Post
He must have been busy as a beaver during his fleeting school days.
From Literature
Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off.
From Time Magazine Archive
William Powell, busy as a beaver, cheats a few glimmers of fun out of all the suggestive mockery.
From Time Magazine Archive
Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war.
From Time Magazine Archive
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