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full of beans

Etymology 1 a. (context idiomatic English) energetic and enthusiastic. Etymology 2

a. (context chiefly US idiomatic English) incorrect; uninformed; exaggerate or expressing falsehood.

Usage examples of "full of beans".

When they made camp that first night, with their cook fires glowing in the twilight and everyone full of beans and bread if not entirely satisfied with them, Malien gathered the noblewomen around her, their silks more than travel-stained.

What he meant to say, presumably the girl would be at the game this afternoon, whooping him on, and good old Biddle would be so full of beans and buck that there would be no holding him.

Take Colonel Wing: he's full of beans, but when all's said and done he's a frail old man, over ninety.

He was an engaging lad, fresh-faced and full of beans, with a Colt in his armpit and that restless eye that you develop from years of learning not to sit down with your back to the door.

There are people who would very much like to raise a liftle garden full of beans.