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a trip too short to pack for and too fun to skip
means A short journey taken for pleasure rather than necessity.
from Originally 'jaunt' meant something rougher — to tire out a horse by riding it back and forth, or simply to trudge wearily about. Its exact roots are genuinely uncertain, with no agreed-upon source. Over the 1600s and 1700s the sense softened, swapping fatigue for fun, until a wearying ride became a delightful little outing.
- origin
- once meant tiring a horse with pointless riding
- tone shift
- flipped from exhausting chore to breezy pleasure
- sibling word
- jaunty struts in from the same root
- distance
- defined by brevity, not destination
for instance
cook's first voyage 1768 — captain james cook's three-year pacific expedition charting new zealand and australia
phileas fogg's around world — jules verne's 1873 fictional journey in 80 days, inspired real travel races