Hi everybody, what do you think about holiday? Do you prefer winter holiday or the summer one? And what about different kind of holiday as one week of meditation, or something like that, have you never had a holiday different from others?
I prefer always holiday to daily routine. Therefore I take every chance to go for a short or long holiday between some days or two weeks. So I have allways holidays different from others.
Wow, once again I've learned something. I hadn't known that idiom yet. 'a busmen's holiday'.
Could also be 'a policemen's holiday', 'a nurses holiday', 'a fireman's holiday', a room maiden's holiday' - all those valiant people who keep things going while we're enjoying our spare time. It's high time we acknowlegded their work a little bit.
Thank you, Gwendo, for putting things right. Yes indeed, having a busman's holiday is spending one's holiday in practising one's usual occupation. That idiom has for sure been made up by alluding to the bus driver who drives its coach on holidays. Nothing to do with the root of 'busy'.
It's a good thing for everyone, and first of all for me, the screwball, that there are clever, thoughtful and caring GGmates like Gwendo to prevent people from talking nonsense.
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