eager beaver


a highly motivated person

TRANSLATION

eager beaver = das Arbeitstier, der Übereifrige

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

The new mayor of Chicago approached his maiden voyage like an EAGER BEAVER. He arrived at 9:30 a.m., 30 minutes before the meeting was scheduled to begin, with a bottle of water in his hand and a gleam in his eye.

(Chicago Sun-Times newspaper)

---
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the EAGER BEAVER who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.

- actress Elisabeth Rohm

Did you
know?

eager beaver
idiom

- a person who is willing to work hard

(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

---
Beavers are legendary hard workers, sometimes to the dismay of land owners. With an unparalleled work ethic and teeth that can cut through wood like a chain saw, they can take a stream or creek and dam it up in no time. While giving themselves a nice new home, the beaver's industrious nature can leave farmers without a source of water in remote areas. That's why we like to refer to hard working people as eager beavers.

This phrase can also be used as a simile: He's eager as a beaver. These expressions add great colour to a language. Here are a few other common examples:

- busy as a bee

- quiet as a mouse

- free as a bird

- hungry as a horse

- drunk as a skunk

- blind as a bat

---
SYNONYMS

achiever, hard worker, go-getter, fireball, dynamo, hot shot, mover and shaker

---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

"You might like to ask Bob to do it, he's a real eager beaver."

More Word Quizzes:

whinge

6 years ago

to sleep

SORRY,
please try again...

to celebrate

SORRY,
please try again...

to complain

Congrats Your Answer is Correct.

Pull your socks up!

6 years ago

Wake up, it's time to get up!

SORRY,
please try again...

Improve your work, it's not good enough!

Congrats Your Answer is Correct.

Hurry up, we don't have much time!

SORRY,
please try again...

fisticuffs

6 years ago

tied hands

SORRY,
please try again...

bare-fist fights

Congrats Your Answer is Correct.

financial regulations

SORRY,
please try again...

bold as brass

6 years ago

having a lot of confidence

Congrats Your Answer is Correct.

having superior competence

SORRY,
please try again...

having little authority

SORRY,
please try again...

Scoxit

6 years ago

Scotland leaving the European Union and staying within the U.K.

SORRY,
please try again...

Scotland leaving the U.K. and staying within the European Union

Congrats Your Answer is Correct.

Scots leaving the U.K. to live in Europe

SORRY,
please try again...

Copyright © 2000-2023 PSA - All Rights Reserved