be run off your feet

be run off your feet
be run/rushed off (your) feet to have to work very hard or very fast.

There's only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet.

We weren't exactly rushed off our feet - there was only one visitor all afternoon.


New idioms dictionary. 2014.

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  • run off your feet — If you are run off your feet, you are extremely busy and don t have enough time to do everything …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • run off your feet — rushed/run/off your feet phrase very busy We’ll be rushed off our feet around lunchtime. Thesaurus: busy and workingsynonym Main entry: foot …   Useful english dictionary

  • (be) run off your feet — be rushed/run off your ˈfeet idiom to be extremely busy; to have too many things to do • Weekdays are slow in the restaurant, but at weekends the staff are rushed off their feet. Main entry: ↑footidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • be run off your feet — be run/rushed off your feet ► to be extremely busy: »Business was booming, and everyone in the office was rushed off their feet. Main Entry: ↑foot …   Financial and business terms

  • (be) rushed off your feet — be rushed/run off your ˈfeet idiom to be extremely busy; to have too many things to do • Weekdays are slow in the restaurant, but at weekends the staff are rushed off their feet. Main entry: ↑footidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • rushed off your feet — rushed/run/off your feet phrase very busy We’ll be rushed off our feet around lunchtime. Thesaurus: busy and workingsynonym Main entry: foot …   Useful english dictionary

  • be rushed off your feet — be run/rushed off (your) feet to have to work very hard or very fast. There s only one secretary working for the whole accounts department and the poor woman is run off her feet. We weren t exactly rushed off our feet there was only one visitor… …   New idioms dictionary

  • be rushed off your feet — be run/rushed off your feet ► to be extremely busy: »Business was booming, and everyone in the office was rushed off their feet. Main Entry: ↑foot …   Financial and business terms

  • be run/rushed off your feet — Brit : to be very busy We are run off our feet trying to fill orders. • • • Main Entry: ↑foot …   Useful english dictionary

  • be run/rushed off your feet — ► to be extremely busy: »Business was booming, and everyone in the office was rushed off their feet. Main Entry: ↑foot …   Financial and business terms

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