travel light

Idioms  

1. Take little baggage; also, be relatively free of responsibilities or deep thoughts, as in I can be ready in half an hour; I always travel light, or I don't want to buy a house and get tied down; I like to travel light, or It's hard to figure out whom they'll attack next, because ideologically they travel light. The literal use dates from the 1920s, the figurative from the mid-1900s.

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travel light

The community believes that a pregnant woman should not be buried with the foetus inside her - needing to "travel light" into the afterlife.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

But in normal conditions, you at least can travel light: Last June, I made the climb in a pair of sturdy trail runners and a fleece.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023

I travel light, but it sometimes becomes … heavy.

From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022

As migrants prepare for the smugglers’ boat trip across the Bab al-Mandab strait to Yemen, they try to travel light, and the beach is littered with clothes and personal items they decided to discard.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2020

More would have been nice, but she needed to travel light.

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart