busy as a bee

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  Very active; working constantly.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.

Translations

 * Czech: pilný jako mravenec, pilný jako včelka
 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian: marljiv kao pčelica
 * Swedish:, flitig som ett bi