| 词汇 | busy as a one-armed paperhanger |
| 词源 | busy as a one-armed paperhanger. This phrase is often at- tributed to cartoonist T(homas) A(loysius) Dorgan (1877– 1929), but may have originated with O. Henry, who wrote in a 1908 story: “Busy as a one-armed man with a nettle rash past- ing on wall-paper.” |
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