Cook's tour

American

[kooks] / kʊks /

noun

a guided but cursory tour of the major features of a place or area.

Cook's tour British

noun

informal a rapid but extensive tour or survey of anything

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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

And there are many ways, besides a Cook's tour, to leave home.

From Time Magazine Archive

In addition to Tele-News newsreel clips, CBS-TV supplies a pointer and a relief map of Korea so that Douglas Edwards can conduct televiewers on a nightly Cook's tour of the battlefront.

From Time Magazine Archive

As I am directing this Cook's tour we will have but one drink here.

From The Sorrows of a Show Girl by McGaffey, Kenneth

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