Idiom
full of beans
Meaning
Energetic and enthusiastic.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The children are full of beans this morning.”
“After a long nap, the puppy woke up and was full of beans.”
“Despite the grueling hike, the young explorers remained full of beans and eager to reach the summit before sunset.”
Examples
simple
“The children are full of beans this morning.”
contextual
“After a long nap, the puppy woke up and was full of beans.”
complex
“Despite the grueling hike, the young explorers remained full of beans and eager to reach the summit before sunset.”
Origin
Attested since the 1930s, the phrase originated as a euphemistic variation of the expression *full of shit*.
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