Do you ever spend your off-time doing something work related? This is known as a busman's holiday or a postman's holiday, as in the British understanding of holiday as a vacation or time off work. Research for a dictionary entry on postman's holiday led Grant to an old French ragtime song called "Le Facteur en Balade," or "The Postman on a Walk." In the proper sense, a postman's holiday might consist of a leisurely walk along the same route whereon he delivers the mail. Let's just hope it doesn't involve getting chased by dogs. This is part of a complete episode.
I was born in the UK and lived there until I was 25 yrs old and “busman's holiday†is a very familiar expression to me. This is how I believe it originated:
In the old days, when there was a bus driver and bus conductor working on the red double deckers, a group of employees would borrow or rent (not sure which) a bus for a week or two and actually go on holiday…on the bus. I imagine they would roll up the “out of service†sign on the front and back and away they would go on their “busman's holiday.â€
From that time on, any holiday one would take that was related to work in some way became a busman's holiday.
Do you ever spend your off-time doing something work related? This is known as a busman's holiday or a postman's holiday, as in the British understanding of holiday as a vacation or time off work. Research for a dictionary entry on postman's holiday led Grant to an old French ragtime song called "Le Facteur en Balade," or "The Postman on a Walk." In the proper sense, a postman's holiday might consist of a leisurely walk along the same route whereon he delivers the mail. Let's just hope it doesn't involve getting chased by dogs. This is part of a complete episode.
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