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Dizzy

0 One of my friends told me that he was kept busy recently, so much so that he feels dizzy. So I wonder if there are some interesting idioms or commonly used idioms in English to express that "someone is rather busy"? Thanks. 0-
  

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0 OK, let me make a start. 02br 00Busy as a bee. 02br 00Busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (someone who puts up wall-paper).

— Clive

  • 0 OK, let me make a start.
  • 02br 00Busy as a bee.
  • 02br 00Busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (someone who puts up wall-paper).
  • 02br 00Clive 0-
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0 OK, let me make a start. 02br
00Busy as a bee. 02br
00Busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (someone who puts up wall-paper). 02br
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0"To be bogged down in work" if I remember it right 050010id1
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0 busy as a bee - After the opening of her new shop, Kay is as busy as a bee. 02br
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00busy as a beaver - Tom is as busy as a beaver trying to finish cleaning his backyard before it rains. 02br
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00The below mentioned phrases are also used but not as often as the 'busy as a bee' phrase. 02br
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00busy as a bee pod - combination
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0 He is up to his ears in work. 0-
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0 Some people say 'busy busy busy'. (It's quite annoying.) 02br
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00Or 'I'm snowed under at the moment'. 02br
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00MrP 0-
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0Because I use it all the time, I've got to give my version of Clive's: 'Busy as a one-armed billposter in a high wind'. 02br
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00'Up to my ****' is another that springs to mind-- elegant, eh wot? 0-
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0 In German, "busy" might be translated as "Hin und her sausen wie ein Furz auf der Gardinenstange" - according to my dictionary. The literal translation is "Buzzing back and forth like a **** on the curtain rail". No German I've ever met has admitted to using or even understanding it, however!02br
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00Not that this has anything to do with the question. 05002br
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0 Darn, why won't it let me edit?02br
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00We also use the phrase "tied up".02br
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00"Are you coming for dinner?"02br
00"No, sorry, I'm rather tied up at the moment". 0-
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