"busy as a nailer" meaning in All languages combined

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      "expansion": "busy as a nailer (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "name": "Irish English",
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        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832 Samuel Lover \"The Devil's Mill\" Legends and Stories of Ireland (Dublin: Wakeman) 2nd ed., p. 139",
          "text": "So the Colonel went down stairs, and the Ould Fellow worked away as busy as a nailer, shovellin' in the guineas by hundherds and thousands."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Pennsylvania Secretary of Internal Affairs, Bureau of Industrial Statistics; Annual Report for 1887 (Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers) \"G: The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers\" p. 24",
          "text": "The result was obvious; the nailer was no longer “as busy as a nailer,” and there was no prospect that he ever would be fully employed."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 May 30, Noel Dundon, \"Appreciation: The Late Eileesh Quirke, Holycross\" Tipperary Star (Thurles)",
          "text": "… she would be as busy as a nailer in the Abbey Shop ensuring that Mass cards were ready for those who came, and helping out in any other way she could."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "working constantly."
      ],
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          "work",
          "work"
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      "qualifier": "simile",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(simile, idiomatic, dated, Ireland) working constantly."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "work like a nailer"
        }
      ],
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        "Ireland",
        "dated",
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "busy as a nailer"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "work like a nailer"
    }
  ],
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        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
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        "English similes",
        "English uncomparable adjectives",
        "Irish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1832 Samuel Lover \"The Devil's Mill\" Legends and Stories of Ireland (Dublin: Wakeman) 2nd ed., p. 139",
          "text": "So the Colonel went down stairs, and the Ould Fellow worked away as busy as a nailer, shovellin' in the guineas by hundherds and thousands."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, Pennsylvania Secretary of Internal Affairs, Bureau of Industrial Statistics; Annual Report for 1887 (Harrisburg: E. K. Meyers) \"G: The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers\" p. 24",
          "text": "The result was obvious; the nailer was no longer “as busy as a nailer,” and there was no prospect that he ever would be fully employed."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 May 30, Noel Dundon, \"Appreciation: The Late Eileesh Quirke, Holycross\" Tipperary Star (Thurles)",
          "text": "… she would be as busy as a nailer in the Abbey Shop ensuring that Mass cards were ready for those who came, and helping out in any other way she could."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "working constantly."
      ],
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          "work",
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        "(simile, idiomatic, dated, Ireland) working constantly."
      ],
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  "word": "busy as a nailer"
}