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Definition

To be very busy doing many different things.

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In Context

  • "I've been running about all week getting everything ready for the holidays."
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Related Idioms

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run around

To be very busy doing many different things.

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have one's fingers in many pies

To be involved in many, or too many, different things.

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otherwise engaged

busy doing something else

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up to one's neck in alligators

Extremely busy; having many pressing obligations, distractions, etc., …

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sugar and spice

Two things that are fundamentally different from each other.

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chalk and cheese

Said of things that are very different, though possibly superficially …
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