| 单词 | busy as a bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) busy as a bee P2. (as) busy as a bee: very busy or industrious (and typically happily so); fully engaged with some occupation (cf. bee n.1 1b). ΚΠ c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Merchant/Franklin Link (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 4 For ay as bisy as bees Ben they [sc. women] vs sely men for to [de]ceyue. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 445 Now ar tha maid als bissie as ane be. 1690 W. Walker Idiomatologia Anglo-Lat. 74 You are as busie as a bee. a1788 N. Cotton Var. Pieces Verse & Prose (1791) I. 107 Thus four or five of us you'll see, And each as busy as a bee. 1866 Harper's Mag. Dec. 51/2 Throughout the day Frank was as busy as a bee,..and the roll of bills in his vest pocket biggened. 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 163 All the mammies were busy as bees chatting away and talking about all the little kiddies as Malachy came trotting in the school gates. < as lemmas |
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