eager beaver

IPA: ˈigɝbˈivɝ

(idiomatic, colloquial) One (especially a child) who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task; a person who is exceedingly assiduous in an enthusiastic manner

Examples of "eager-beaver" in Sentences

An investigator operating alone could be too easily accused of planting evidence by an eager-beaver defense attorney.
The opening scene was of a body found in a swamp, slapped on the exam table, with an eager-beaver troop of Woodchucks standing by.
"OK, keep an eye on Peggy," he says, referring to Elisabeth Moss 'character, who's evolved from eager-beaver partner to feminist this season.
And I would extend the "leave this space alone" rule to the notices of events around campus that eager-beaver work study students (I assume) post on the stall doors.
In high school, as an eager-beaver reader, I turned out dozens of enthusiastic if naïve book reviews, filling the exercise book meant expressly for this purpose, long before I was meant to.
Voters arriving at their early polling places in Prince George's County last week said they were stormed by eager-beaver candidates and campaign workers who pushed literature into their hands before they had a chance to put them up in protest.
Here is where the sea formed anew, and widened, and deepened, and where sediments from another river, and the carcasses of microorganisms, were deposited, buried, baked, until finally -- the enchanting payoff of the story if you're an eager-beaver oil executive -- the organic matter turned into oil.