eager beaver adj.
(orig. Us) earnest, usu. excessively so.
![]() | Thicker ’n Thieves 143: Sergeant Jackson, the police department’s eager beaver pimp and procurer. | |
![]() | (con. 1944) Big War 332: Go ahead and pull it. You’ve been eager-beaver enough before. | |
![]() | Cannibals 136: You’re loaded with that eager beaver bullshit. | |
![]() | Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 133: They were commodities for the profit of the likes of Ally Fraser and this eager-beaver young man on the make. | |
![]() | Secrets of Your Rising Sign 1: [...] with an eager beaver demeanor, they always do more than expected. | |
![]() | Seven Demons 136: Saul [...] has got a kind of eager-beaver thing going on. |
In derivatives
(excessive) enthusiasm.
![]() | Affairs of Gidget 69: I was all ready to go, but determined to control my eager-beaverishness. |