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keen as a bean

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Very keen; enthusiastic; eager.

informal, not-comparable

Examples

“2018 Alasdair Duncan, Here’s How To Improve Your Pitiful Uber Rating From Someone Who Did It Pedestrian, 17 September 2018. Accessed 4 May 2019. On my afternoon trip home, I struck a driver who seemed keen as a bean to get me to mash that five star ratinghis Mitsubishi Outlander was stocked with mints and bottled water and he offered them all to me and even asked if I wanted to make any extra stops on the way home.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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