Some men have hobbies. I have supporting careers.
The French, to their credit, already have a phrase for this.
Avoir un violon d’Ingres — literally, to have an Ingres violin. It means cultivating an artistic life outside the profession by which the world officially knows you.
The expression comes from the painter Ingres, who pursued the violin with such devotion that his secondary passion became a permanent French idiom.
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