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"Busy as a one-armed paperhanger" nghĩa là gì?
02 Feb, 2021
"Busy as a one-armed paperhanger" -> nghĩa là luôn bận bịu, bận rộn.
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He’s as busy as a one-armed paperhanger, but it does baffle me that British writers, casting directors and TV and movie bigwigs don’t take advantage of his formidable talent.
According to Wikipedia, “Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as "dumbbell" (a stupid person); "for crying out loud" (an exclamation of astonishment (bất ngờ)); "cat's meow" and "cat's pajamas" (as superlatives); "applesauce" (nonsense); "cheaters'" (eyeglasses); "skimmer" (a hat); "hard-boiled" (a tough person); "drugstore cowboy" (loafers or ladies' men); "nickel-nurser" (a miser); "as busy as a one-armed paperhanger" (overworked); and "Yes, we have no bananas," which was turned into a popular song.”
a Russian grand duke, a young man said to be worth some few hundreds of millions of dollars, a spender from away back, a man who on his tour of this country was as busy as a one-armed paper-hanger with the hives just tossing away money.
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