It was the dog that got me thinking.
Watching her streak across a field, I realised that ‘running’ was an inadequate description. Every few yards, she would take to the air with all four legs off the ground. Her exuberant flights were better expressed as ‘leaps and bounds’.
But what’s the difference between a leap and a bound? Why not just ‘leap’, or just ‘bound’? My economical instincts said one