A: My mother spent a busman’s holiday working in her hotel during the New Year.

    B: That can be imagined since holidays are always a busy time for hotels.

    Note: The idiom means “a holiday or vacation during which one does something similar to what one does at work.”

    It was first recorded in 1893 in Britain. In London during the late 1800s, 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 their horses.