Eager beaver is an English-language idiom and may refer to:
- Organizations
- Eager Beaver, an achievement level in Beavers (Scouting)
- Eager Beaver Baseball Association, a baseball league for youths in London, Ontario, Canada
- Eager Beavers RFC, Canadian rugby union Touring Side which was formed in late 2000
- Eager Beavers, nickname for the 72d Helicopter Squadron; see List of United States Air Force helicopter squadrons
- Film and literature
- The Eager Beaver (1946 film), a 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon; see Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–1949)
- Eager Beaver (1977 film), a 1977 film featuring Christine De Shaffer
- Eager Beavers (2009 TV movie), a 2009 film featuring Bridgetta Tomarchio
- Eager Beavers (adult film series), a series of seven pornographic films released between 1998 and 2004
- The Eager Beaver, a lounge featured in Strip Tease (novel) and the adaptation Striptease (film)
Famous quotes containing the words eager and/or beaver:
“The academic expectations for a child just beginning school are minimal. You want your child to come to preschool feeling happy, reasonably secure, and eager to explore and learn.”
—Bettye M. Caldwell (20th century)
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)