Brits say “going on holiday” instead of “going on vacation” and it somehow sounds way more festive and healthy.

What are we “vacating” anyway? The grind? There’s no positive element?

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We’re vacating from whatever/whomever we’re informing about the vacation. We know employers and colleagues don’t care about our personal happiness.

I think Americans in office environments like to understate anything positive that happens outside their work - marriage, having kids, going on holidays. Fear of being found out as not working hard enough or something