busy as a beaver
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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
On the eve of this week's A. F. of L. convention at which he would report an increase of 500,000 members under NRA, President Green was busy as a beaver on the Washington battlements.
From Time Magazine Archive
After all, even though I've been busy as a beaver, three weeks would hardly give me time to investigate every aspect of their culture....
From Project Gutenberg
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