jog trot

noun

a slow, regular, jolting pace, as of a horse.
an uneventful, humdrum way of living, doing something, etc.:
a sleepy little town where life proceeded at a jog trot.

jog trot

First recorded in 1700–10

Thus fortified with wisdom, he calmly looks the evil in the face, and lets it not disturb his little jog-trot existence.

Jack Harvey, waiting a moment longer to rest, started off on an easy jog-trot back to camp.

It delayed the whole gang, for they could not go on faster than a jog-trot.

Nothing will make them move faster—like whipping a carthorse into a gallop; it soon dies away in the old jog-trot.

"No, I'm going forward," answered Tad, putting spur to his pony and starting at a jog trot.

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