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[sagehen]

>At NYU in 1970 I heard "Busier than a cat covering shit on a cement
>highway."  My interlocutor had learned it from his father.
>
>"He was quiet as a wooden-legged man on a tin roof and busy as a one-armed
>paperhanger with the hives" appears on p. 64 of Carl Sandburg's _The
>People, Yes_ (1936).
>
>"Busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kickin' (contest)" shows up in
>several WWII novels published in the '50s.
>
>JL
> ~~~~~~~~~~
"Busier'n a one-armed paperhanger," without further elaboration, was a
common expression during my childhood.
Since Adolph Hitler (a k a  "Shickelgruber") was rumored to have been a
paperhanger at one point,  "paperhanger" itself became a derisive term.
A. Murie

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