JOG TROT: 1: a horse's slow measured trot 2: a routine habit or course of action
The jog trot is a type of gait that is sometimes required at horse shows. It appears to have been so named because the hse's often jolting movement is certainly "jogging," and the gait itself is actually a kind of careful, deliberate trot. The phrase first appeared in print in 1796 and rapidly came to be used in figurative sense as well, referring to a steady and usally monotonous routine similar to the slow, regular pace of a horse at a jog trot. There is a suggestion with the generalized sense that the action is uniform and unhurried, and perhaps even a little dull.
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