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The polite excuse for doing literally anything else this once.
means A deliberate break from routine — doing something different for the sake of variety rather than any special merit in the new activity.
from A straightforward combination of 'change' and 'pace' (speed or rhythm of movement), first used literally in racing and athletic contexts — a runner or horse altering tempo mid-race — before broadening in the 20th century into the everyday figurative sense of switching up one's routine or activities.
- origin
- Horse racing term for shifting speed mid-race
- secret function
- Makes monotony sound like a lifestyle choice
- overuse case
- Often precedes decisions everyone already regrets
- true meaning
- I am bored, help