Busy
Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.
Mad
Mad adjective - Feeling or showing anger.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Averted by Mark Watney, accidentally marooned astronaut in The Martian, who's so busy MacGyvering his way out of starving to death that he hasn't got time to go mad.
Source: Go Mad from the Isolation -
When she has to go up against another newly-gone-mad mad scientist, she warns the rest of the cast that she will be too busy to play nice.
Source: Webcomic / Narbonic - Mad Men: After Roger and Joan get mugged in an alley, they get busy immediately after in that same alley.
Source: Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
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