Someone who is working hard in all the wrong places

Someone who is getting useless things accomplished

Originated from Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares'

'Yesterday at work I had to give Mark something useful to do, he was being such a busy idiot.'

busy idiot by Slang Thang June 13, 2016

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busy work

class or home work teachers tend to give that usually have no learning benefit or provide more than necessary exercises to learn the material. this work is usually distributed when the teacher is lazy or needs to do something and needs to preoccupy the class for the day. busy work is especially common in cases of substitute teachers.

"What do we do in class today?"
"Nothing. Just some busy work"

busy work by Ceyan Cei January 20, 2009

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