"beaver away" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the metaphorical image of a person working as industriously as a beaver building its dam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beavers away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavering away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavered away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavered away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "beaver away (third-person singular simple present beavers away, present participle beavering away, simple past and past participle beavered away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Georgian terms with redundant script codes",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant script codes",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979 June 28, “Feedback: Trouble at th’ Laboratory”, in New Scientist, page 1103",
          "text": "The most obvious impact of the strike was the “havoc” created at Glasgow and London’s Heathrow airports by striking air traffic controllers (who joined the strike in solidarity and are not themselves directly involved in the dispute). But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normally beavering away in seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Michael Francis Atiyah, An Interview with Michael Atiyah: Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers, General Papers, page 299",
          "text": "I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go on beavering away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Coulson, An Insider’s Guide to the Mining Sector, published 2011, unnumbered page",
          "text": "On the other side there was a floor to ceiling partition, on which the mining share prices and dealing boards were fixed, separating the mining sales desk from the specialist mining research group who beavered away behind the partition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To work hard at a task."
      ],
      "id": "en-beaver_away-en-verb-AGJOO0wR",
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To work hard at a task."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "eager beaver"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "ahkeroida"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "ahertaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "uurastaa"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "bûcher"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "muq̇aitobs",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "მუყაითობს"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "garǯa",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "გარჯა"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "beǯitoba",
          "sense": "to busily undertake",
          "word": "ბეჯითობა"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beaver away"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the metaphorical image of a person working as industriously as a beaver building its dam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beavers away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavering away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavered away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beavered away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "beaver away (third-person singular simple present beavers away, present participle beavering away, simple past and past participle beavered away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "eager beaver"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs with particle (away)",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Georgian terms with redundant script codes"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She won't be going out much, as she's beavering away on her thesis."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979 June 28, “Feedback: Trouble at th’ Laboratory”, in New Scientist, page 1103",
          "text": "The most obvious impact of the strike was the “havoc” created at Glasgow and London’s Heathrow airports by striking air traffic controllers (who joined the strike in solidarity and are not themselves directly involved in the dispute). But quietly and without fuss, thousands of scientists normally beavering away in seclusion downed microscopes, test tubes, and oscilloscopes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Michael Francis Atiyah, An Interview with Michael Atiyah: Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers, General Papers, page 299",
          "text": "I was thinking more of the tendency today for people to develop whole areas of mathematics on their own, in a rather abstract fashion. They just go on beavering away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Michael Coulson, An Insider’s Guide to the Mining Sector, published 2011, unnumbered page",
          "text": "On the other side there was a floor to ceiling partition, on which the mining share prices and dealing boards were fixed, separating the mining sales desk from the specialist mining research group who beavered away behind the partition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To work hard at a task."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "hard",
          "hard"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To work hard at a task."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-beaver away.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/En-au-beaver_away.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "ahkeroida"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "ahertaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "uurastaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "bûcher"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "muq̇aitobs",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "მუყაითობს"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "garǯa",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "გარჯა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "beǯitoba",
      "sense": "to busily undertake",
      "word": "ბეჯითობა"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beaver away"
}