Re: Any idioms for summer holidays?? 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... |