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A dirty
business
A head for
business
and a body for sin
A lot on your plate ( having many responsibilities )
Active
listening
As busy as a
beaver
As busy as a bee
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As busy as a one armed paper hanger
As busy as a one legged arse kicker
Back in
business
Beaver
away at
Big Blue ( Nickname of International
Business
Machines ( IBM ) )
Bucky
Beaver
( Nickname of actress Jenna Elfman )
Business
acumen
Business
as usual
Business
at hand
Business
before pleasure
Business
class
Business
end
Business
is beautiful ( Sprint advertising slogan )
Business
is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
Business
jet
Business
need
Business
or pleasure
Business
partner
Business
plan
Business
to
business
Busy bee
Busy busy
Busy old fool, unruly sun ( from a poem by John Donne )
Busy yourself
Denial of service attack
Displacement
activity
Do the
business
Do your
business
Doing a land-office
business
Don't mix
business
with pleasure
Eager
beaver
Gad about
Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
Get busy with the fizzy ( Soda Stream advertising slogan )
Get down to
business
Go about your
business
Hard at it
Hive of industry
I'll make it my
business
If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying ( Bob Dylan song lyric )
Inner city
Land office
business
Let's get busy
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon quotation )
Life is what happens while you are busy doing other things
Like nobody's
business
Mean
business
Mind your own
business
Monkey
business
Moving at the speed of
business
( UPS advertising slogan )
Never a dull moment
Occupy
one's mind
On the go
Open for
business
Open warfare (
engaged
in
active
fighting )
Places to go, people to see, things to do
Prolongs
active
life ( PAL dog food advertising slogan )
Revenge mission ( an attempt to seek
active
retribution )
Revenue per
occupied
room
Risky
business
Run off your feet
Sandwich generation
Seeing small
business
differently ( SBC Communications advertising slogan )
Snowed under
Strictly
business
Taking care of
business
Teeming with life
The
Active
voice
The
Beaver
State ( Nickname of the US state of Oregon )
The Best Second Banana in the
Business
( Nickname of Art Carney )
The Show
Business
Capital Of The World ( Nickname of Hollywood California )
The Smartest Dumbbell in the History of Show
Business
( Nickname of comedienne Gracie Allen )
The
business
The
business
of America is
business
There's No
Business
Like Show
Business
( Judy Garland song )
This line of
business
Time pressure
Times Square ( tourist attraction in New York USA )
Too Busy Thinking About My Baby ( Marvin Gaye song )
Too Much Monkey
Business
( Chuck Berry song )
Too many irons in the fire
We mean
business
What with one thing and another
Work like a
beaver
Work yourself into the ground
Working all the hours God sends
You got a friend in the
business
( Gateway 2000 advertising slogan )