jog trot

American  

noun

1. a slow, regular, jolting pace, as of a horse.

2. an uneventful, humdrum way of living, doing something, etc..

   a sleepy little town where life proceeded at a jog trot.

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jog trot British  

noun

1. an easy bouncy gait, esp of a horse, midway between a walk and a trot

2. a monotonous or regular way of living or doing something

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verb

1. (intr) to move at a jog trot

Etymology

Origin of jog trot

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

jog trot

Within this idiom, which can so easily descend to jog trot, she frequently so descends.

From Time Magazine Archive

This walk—sometimes quickened into a jog trot and even into a lope, sometimes slackened till it becomes a crawl—is variously diversified, according to the temper and general disposition of the parties.

From The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

So Johnnie Green fell into a jog trot, which he kept up all the way to the red schoolhouse.

From The Tale of Snowball Lamb by Harry L. Smith

Then the horses started on a jog trot and the truck was bumping its way over an uneven country road.

From Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive by Homer Randall

But they seem almost happy, in a jog trot sort of a way, along the old trail—the Midlands to Indiar, and Indiar to the Midlands, with bwidge between.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by W. G. (William Gordon) Burn Murdoch