in the throes of
tied up
busily
busy
knee-deep
on the trot
on the go
up to one's neck in alligators
rat race
hustle and bustle
overoccupied
thrang
eventfully
up to
flat chat
rushed off one's feet
superbusy
flat strap
flat out
busy as a beaver
rushed
overbusy
on a mission
busyness
oversitting
overleisured
at it
abustle
preoccupiedly
hustly-bustly
harried
overpreoccupied
slammed
alive
hassly
deediness
have one's hands full
busyish
chokka
semibusy
hectivity
like a bag of ferrets
drudgery
at
daily grind
sweaty
reoccupation
bustling
jostlingly
bustly
done
slam
hecticity
full-time
workful
throng
crowding
paperwork
busying
snowed under
prepossess
scut work
open season
absorb
backbreaker
athrong
bebusy
abstractedly
inattentively
absently
busybodyish
shifty
hand-sitter
on duty
absentmindedly
coming and going
snarl up
hectically
work
overengrossed
eident
thick
tie up
overleisurely
peg away
skimp
plug away
slog
keep one's shoulder to the wheel
keep one's nose to the grindstone
employment
occupiable
scant