Cook's tour
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Cook's tour
1905–10; after Thomas Cook (1808–92), English travel agent
Example Sentences
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Thomas Cook's tour operations and airline are worth £738m, but its debt is around the same "and implies zero equity value", according to Citigroup.
From BBC ● May 17, 2019
Along the way, he provides a Cook's tour of the kinds of maths that touch our lives – everybody's life – each discipline wrapped up in its own anecdotes.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
Dadaist Duchamp's account of his own flight sounded like a whimsically eventful Cook's tour.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week, after a carefully conducted Cook's tour of Mao's Wonderland, the 14 Indians reported to Nehru.
From Time Magazine Archive
These hopes proved to be exaggerated, but they illustrate his constant and lifelong interest in the widest possible diffusion of all good things in the world from university training down to a Cook's tour.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
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