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| Are there any idioms,sayings or expressions relating to summer holidays that you say when you feel happy knowing that it's all ahead (and to make others sad or jealous) |
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| Not that I can think of. |
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| The only summer idioms I can think of are: The dog days of summer..... those hottest, dampest, worst days of a hot summer.... "I hate the dog days of summer, I always go to the lake then." Indian Summer.... after summer and it starts to cool off in the fall, if it gets nice and warm again for a week, it is called Indian summer... "We're having a nice Indian summer, aren't we?) The boys of summer... American baseball players are called the boys of summer, since they play ball all summer long. |
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| We also have 'busman's holiday' for a working holiday. |
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| OK Thanks for the info Didn't know that "boys of summer"means baseball players. There's a song called "boys of summer" isn't there. But what exactly is busman's holiday? Is it for a "workaholic" who spends the holiday for working? |
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| Busman's Holiday for a workaholic? Could be, but more frequently, for when someone -has- to, or accidently, does on their holiday what they do at work. I have heard that said: To a pilot who was flying to his vacation, to a doctor who, on his holiday, ends up treating a sick person on the beach... his wife looked at all of us and said "Kind of a busman's holiday, hmmm?"... I think it came from the fact that a bus driver (busman) HAS to take a bus to get to his vacation... his first day on vacation, and boom, he's on a bus again....so it's more of a joke than a workaholic situation... when you find yourself trying to get away from work and boom.. there is your work in front of you again... |
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| OK Thanks for the answer Robert My holiday is now over and it definitively wasn't a busman's holiday. hah hah |
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