What it means is that your over worked or too much work like I would borrow a cats paw.
Busy work, chores
It refers to the end of the day's work on the railroads where the wagons were uncoupled
There is no such phrase as "eat you".
There is no such phrase. There is a word rampage. It is of Scottish origin, perhaps from RAMP, to rear up.
The phrase of Greek origin referring to the common people is "hoi polloi."
"on the rocks"
The Spanish for "I have put" is he puesto, could this be the origin?
There are two verbs in this sentence: dashed, and save. The phrase "to save the drowning child" is a prepositional phrase, and therefore the primary action verb in this sentence is dashed.
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Metaphorically drowning; through lack of skills, knowledge, time etc.
The phrase 'come full circle' refers to getting back to the original position or the original state of affairs. The origin of the phrase is unknown, but is used in the Western world.