| By the time they get there they are totally jaded by the whole thing or keen as mustard to help. |
| That is particularly the case in Britain: the previous Labour government was as keen as mustard on outsourcing work previously done by government employees. |
| He was keen as mustard to begin the new job, until he learned what it really entailed. |
| Keen as mustard, fearless as well as tactless, he did not hesitate to treat even the great man himself to a barbed tongue-lashing. |
| Like most students, she was keen as mustard to get out there and experience the job first-hand. |
| He was keen as mustard to go and help, but we have been missing him and he's been missing us. |
