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Busman's Holiday spending your free time doing the same thing you do during working hours

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Freddy went back to his carpentry shop after spending all weekend building our treehouse. What a busman's holiday! In London, during the late 1800s and early 1900s, buses were pulled by horses. Some bus drivers loved their horses so much that on their days off from work, they would ride on their own buses just to make sure that other bus drivers took good care of the horses. This habit got to be called a "busman's holiday," and today it can be applied to anybody who does the same thing on free time as he or she gets paid to do at work.

Idiom	Busman's Holiday
Example	Freddy went back to his carpentry shop after spending all weekend building our treehouse. What a busman's holiday!
Meaning	spending your free time doing the same thing you do during working hours
Origin	In London, during the late 1800s and early 1900s, buses were pulled by horses. Some bus drivers loved their horses so much that on their days off from work, they would ride on their own buses just to make sure that other bus drivers took good care of the horses. This habit got to be called a "busman's holiday," and today it can be applied to anybody who does the same thing on free time as he or she gets paid to do at work.

Busman's Holiday Spending Free Time Thing Buses Horses