full of beans

phrase

informal

1

: full of energy and life

We were young and full of beans.

2

US : not correct or truthful : full of nonsense

If that's what he's been saying, then he's full of beans.

Examples of full of beans in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Louisville earned a giant trophy full of beans for winning the Bush’s Boca Raton Bowl against Toledo yesterday. — Chris Branch, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2025

His Benji is full of beans, often blurting out the wrong thing that somehow, mysteriously, ends up being the right thing. — TIME, 1 Nov. 2024

Well-written, expertly performed, unashamedly odd and full of beans, this would seem to be the latter sort of enterprise. — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022

Rhymes for full of beans

• asphaltenes
• chemokines
• contravenes
• diamines
• evergreens
• figurines
• fullerenes
• gasolines
• ghibellines
• indigenes
• intervenes
• isolines