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

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jog trot

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of preparing to hold this position until the arrival of his reinforcements, he kept on up the valley at a jog trot.

From Bloom of Cactus by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman

The even jog trot of the horse's heavy hoofs kept up a continuous rhythm: "Home, home again; home, home again—this seemed the burden of the strain—home, home again, but the same home never, never again."

From Under the Mendips A Tale by Emma Marshall

As they turned and started at a jog trot northward, she remembered her sister and her new-found aunt.

From The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye

Down the cañon, slouching carelessly with the motion of his horse, appeared a man, riding toward them at a jog trot.

From Louisiana Lou A Western Story by William West Winter