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Teaching material > "I´ve been very busy!"
"I´ve been very busy!"
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ldthemagicman
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"I´ve been very busy!"
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Dear Members: In a recent Caption Competition, I used an idiomatic expression related to "being busy". Members expressed interest, so I just jotted down some more, "off the top of my head" = "impromptu", "without thinking too much about it". Today, I �ve added some others which occurred to me. It �s possible some of the new Members who are beginning to learn English may find them useful. "I am rushed off my feet; I am run off my feet; I am as busy as a bee; I�ve been kept busy; I am a busy little beaver; I�ve been beavering away all day; I have my hands full at the moment; I�ve been on the go all week; I�ve been up to my ears in work; I�ve been up to my eyes in work; I�ve been snowed under with work; I�ve been working like the clappers; I�ve been working non-stop; I haven�t had a minute to myself; I�ve been running around like a madman; I�m so busy, I don�t know whether I�m coming or going; I�ve been hard at it; I�ve been tied up; I�ve been on the job all day; I�ve been in the thick of it for days now; I�ve been on the go non-stop; I�ve had a lot on; I�ve had a lot to do; I�ve had a lot on my plate, recently; I�m fully stretched; I�m under a lot of pressure; I�ve been on the trot all day; It has been absolutely hectic; It has been absolutely frantic; I�ve had to get a move on with things; It has been a hive of activity here; It�s been an absolute stampede to finish on time; I�ve been coming and going all week; I�ve had my nose to the grindstone all day". All the Best! Les Douglas
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11 Apr 2017
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maryse pey�
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Very useful for all dear Les !
Thanks and hugs.
Maryse. |
11 Apr 2017
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epit
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Thanks for this brief lesson.I transtated in to my own language .I think it would be so nice to see this work as a worksheet but it is useful ,too like that .Are there about earth or world idioms?Thanks again |
11 Apr 2017
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cunliffe
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I �ve got a lot on my plate, but not too much, he he! |
13 Apr 2017
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Yolandaprieto
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Les, you are the best!! You are always teaching us so many things that we should be proud of having you as one of ESL most valuable members!!! |
17 Apr 2017
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Thanks for the varied & lovely idioms about being busy, dear Les Douglas 
; why don �t you rearrange them in a worksheet that will surely 
& will excite ESL members 
