busy as a bee |
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| Vrste leksičkih jedinica: | simile |
| Teme: | people: actions |
| Izvorne domene: | animals |
| Čestice: | - |
| Usporedba: | as |
| Glagoli: | - |
| ZEROJ razine: | - | Sinonimi: | - | Antonimi: | - | Definicija: | to be occupied with many activities or tasks | Primjeri: |
As soon as school begins, you’ll be as busy as a bee. Grandma is busy as a bee. |
Motivacija: |
the conceptual metaphor PEOPLE ARE ANIMALS Kövecses, Zoltán. 2010. Metaphor: A Practical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Similar lexical units: shake like a leaf, sing like a bird, eat like a horse, live like a king, quick as a flash, eat like a bird, cry like a baby, slow as a snail, swim like a fish, sleep like a baby, run like the wind, quiet as a mouse, keep an eye on , give someone a hand, with your eyes closed, all eyes are on someone/something