busman's holiday

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   a holiday where you do the same things you do at work

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Questions about busman's holiday

What does busman's holiday mean?

busman's holiday means "a holiday where you do the same things you do at work".

Is busman's holiday a common word?

busman's holiday is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.