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whistlestop tour

noun

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  1. A trip by train in which one visits many locations along the way, especially if those…

    A trip by train in which one visits many locations along the way, especially if those locations are not major cities.

    • Gordon then accompanied the former Confederate president on what amounted to a whistlestop tour from Montgomery to Atlanta.
    • It now only remained for the world to decipher precisely what de Gaulle had meant in the various utterances of this his first whistlestop tour of Algeria, and how he was going to follow them up.
    • In October 1964, First Lady Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson embarked on a whistlestop tour of Southern cities to support her husband's presidential reelection bid.

  2. An overview of a subject which includes a number of illustrative examples.

    • This chapter is a whistlestop tour of basic marketing ideas.
    • First, let's sketch out that geographical unevenness with a whistlestop tour of the world in figures - excess mortality rates, to be precise..

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