keen as a bean

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Meaning · English

Very keen; enthusiastic; eager.

Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt

Rất nhiệt tình, hào hứng, mong muốn

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Register: informal

Where it’s used: Used American English

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 rating – his Mitsubishi Outlander was stocked with

Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)

Sources & notes

Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).

Common questions

What does “keen as a bean” mean?

Very keen; enthusiastic; eager.

Is “keen as a bean” formal or informal?

keen as a bean is generally informal.