busy as a bee

Language: en

Meaning: (simile,idiomatic)Veryactive;workingconstantly.1811,Jane Austen, chapter 26, inSense and Sensibility:Lord, I have been asbusy as a beeever since dinner!1872—Johanna Spyri,Heidi, ch. 16 (translated)Heidi ran backwards and forwards asbusy as a beeand brought out everything she could find in the cupboard, for she did not know how to be pleased enough that she could help to entertain the doctor.1914,A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVIII, inThe Witness for the Defence:There was his father bending over his papers at his writing-table before the window,busy as a beeno doubt at some new enthusiasm which was destined to infuriate his neighbours.

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