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English
Etymology
Compare Middle English bisy as bees.
Pronunciation
Adjective
busy as a bee (not comparable)
- (simile, idiomatic) Very active; working constantly.
- 1872 — Johanna Spyri, Heidi, ch. 16 (translated)
- Heidi ran backwards and forwards as busy as a bee and brought out everything she could find in the cupboard, for she did not know how to be pleased enough that she could help to entertain the doctor.
1914, A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVIII, in The Witness for the Defence:There was his father bending over his papers at his writing-table before the window, busy as a bee no doubt at some new enthusiasm which was destined to infuriate his neighbours.
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