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Cook's tour

American  
[kooks] / kʊks /

noun

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


Cook's tour British  

noun

  1. informal a rapid but extensive tour or survey of anything

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Cook's tour

1905–10; after Thomas Cook (1808–92), English travel agent

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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

His Cook's tour of the Asian battlefield leaves no corpse unturned.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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