work like a beaver

Idioms  

1. Also,. Work very energetically and hard, as in She worked like a beaver to clean out all the closets, or I've been working like a dog weeding the garden, or He's very strong and works like a horse. The first of these similes is the oldest, first recorded in 1741; the variants date from the second half of the 1800s. Also see work one's fingers to the bone.

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work like a beaver

I had to work like a beaver before I could brighten them up.

From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton

On the contrary I work like a beaver the whole time.

From Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

“Ah get ’im,” said Sam suddenly, and he dropped into the pit and began to work like a beaver.

From The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave by Ross Kay

To succeed in business believe that it will be successful, assert that it is successful, and work like a beaver to make it so.

From The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont

I have been in the saddle all the day and work like a beaver and am as happy and rugged as possible.

From Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn