A
busman's holiday is a break or holiday doing something similar to that which
you do for a living. The idea being
based on the idea of a busman going on a motoring holiday. It was first recorded in 1893 in the UK.
The
most interesting thing about the expression is that the word busman doesn’t
appear in the dictionary or any other context.
I think I first came across the expression when reading Dorothy Sayers' "Busman's Honeymoon"
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