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

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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

Clyde and Farwell, riding decorously at an easy jog trot, heard the thunder of hoofs behind them, and turned to see the bay and the buckskin sweep past, encouraged by voice and heel.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

Beaver Jack seemed to understand the demand at once, for he broke into something resembling a jog trot, if there is such a thing when dealing with snowshoes.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

The pony that was hitched to the bar of the windlass started to lower the cage by reversing at a jog trot.

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

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

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