busy as a nailer | Idiomator

Meaning: (simile,idiomatic,dated,Ireland)workingconstantly.1832Samuel Lover"The Devil's Mill"Legends and Stories of Ireland(Dublin: Wakeman)2nd ed., p. 139So the Colonel went down stairs, and the Ould Fellow worked away asbusy as a nailer, shovellin' in the guineas by hundherds and thousands.1888, Pennsylvania Secretary of Internal Affairs,Bureau of Industrial Statistics; Annual Report for 1887(Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers)"G: The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers" p. 24The result was obvious; the nailer was no longer “asbusy as a nailer,” and there was no prospect that he ever would be fully employed.2017May 30, Noel Dundon,"Appreciation: The Late Eileesh Quirke, Holycross"Tipperary Star(Thurles)[...] she would be asbusy as a nailerin the Abbey Shop ensuring that Mass cards were ready for those who came, and helping out in any other way she could.

Examples:

No examples available.

Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).