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eager beaver
idiom

- a person who is willing to work hard

(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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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

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SYNONYMS

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

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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation

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