sawdust trail

Meaning

Noun

• The route followed by an itinerant Christian preacher in the United States.
• The path to spiritual redemption or salvation, especially as involving attendance at Christian revival meetings presided over by itinerant preachers in the United States.

Related

Similar words

• sawdust circuit

Origin

• Probably an allusion to the sawdust which covered the floors of the tents in which religious revival meetings were often held.