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It’s an american idiom. Just means they are hard working folks.

It is? To me it only means "the entertainment industry". This seems to be confirmed by https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/show_business

"Show business" means the entertainment industry. "Hardest working in show business" is generic.

Source for this? Searching for "Hardest working in show business" without quotes turns up something relating to an entertainer, and searching it with quotes also returns a bunch of entertainment-related matches.

> Source for this?

American culture for the past 40 years. Seriously, this is a common idiom.

Can you provide any sources? Google only gives results about a single singer.

I'm a native speaker that grew up and lives in the U.S. People use it all the time. I don't have any scientific research papers available to show you, but I promise you - this is a common expression.

What I mean is WireGuard seems like a sincere engineering effort. I'm not sure why it would be called show business which implies fakery.

You’re missing the boat on this one. It’s an idiom, not taken literally.

Misunderstandings about water-transport timetables in 3...2...

* i'll add that whare i am 'the hardest working folks in show business', is often a compliment: we have our backstage (offices etc), and front of house (dealing with customers) where we have our smiley faces plastered on.

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