busy as a beaver

“I am busy as a beaver,” says Parton, ever a master of the folksy bon mot, “and about as dammed up.”

Mary Anne Gibbon, who sits on the parish council and has belonged to Sacred Heart since 1980, said that the parish serves a largely low-income community and that Villalta is usually “busy as a beaver on roller skates” trying to help parishioners.

“He’s like busy as a beaver – he’s assiduously working to extend the culture of the European right to America, and to make America a partner in this effort to derail democracy.”

He must have been busy as a beaver during his fleeting school days.

Busy as a beaver, he estimated his peak output at 350,000 words a year, occasionally resolved to ease off.