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busman

[ buhs-muhn ]

noun

plural busmen.
  1. a person who operates a bus.


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Origin of busman1

First recorded in 1850–55; bus 1 + -man
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“In a way, we’re living Halloween every day, so painting my daughter’s face was really a bit of a busman’s holiday,” Barrie Gower says with a laugh.

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O’Connor plucked this Prince song from an album by his busman’s holiday the Family — the Purple One didn’t even design to release it on his own — and turned it into an uncommonly somber torch song.

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And yet, these charming pieces represent not work for hire so much as a kind of busman’s holiday, in which the author could let down his guard.

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Sequestered with his family for 18 months in their 1955 cabin in Esopus, New York, he embarked on a long busman’s holiday.

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When she was on vacation one summer in Europe -- or what she joked was a busman’s holiday—she agreed to speak at medical schools and hospitals.

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