On an episode of The Editors not too long ago, Charlie Cooke used the expression “a busman’s holiday.” It’s British but familiar to Americans of a certain vintage. Put in American parlance, a bus driver’s vacation is one where the driver spends his free time riding the bus. If you spend your time off from work doing what you do at work, you’re taking a busman’s holiday.

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