busy as a bee

片語忙得不可開交

例句：

My Dad is busy as a bee before Christmastime.

我爸爸總在聖誕節前夕忙得不可開交。

see pink spiders

片語酩酊大醉、醉眼迷濛

例句：

She saw pink spiders after drinking so much.

她在三杯酒喝下肚後開始酩酊大醉。(並沒有粉紅色蜘蛛)

have ants in one's pants

片語急得坐立不安

例句：

Lisa has ants in her pants for tomorrow's interview.

莉莎因為明天的面試而焦躁不安。

have a bee in one's bonnet/head

片語死心眼地；想到出神

例句：

She has a bee in her bonnet after a burglary.

在那起盜竊案過後，她腦海中就一直揮之不去這事件。

break a butterfly on a wheel

片語小題大作；殺雞用牛刀

例句：

"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?" is a quotation from Alexander Pope's "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" of January 1735.

1735年1月，亞歷山大．波普的《致阿布斯諾特博士的書信》中引用了「誰用輪子打蝴蝶？」。