“Cook's tour”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Cook's tour

释义

Cook's tour
[f. the name of Thomas Cook (1808–92), travel agent.]
A tour, esp. one in which many places are viewed; any journey of wide extent; also fig. So Cook's-tourist n. and a.
1906W. de Morgan J. Vance xlvii. 475 So it was decided that Florence was banal and Cook's-tourist—a new adjective.1916F. C. Curry From St. Lawrence to Yser xxi. 155 ‘Cook's tourists’. These individuals were officers sent over..to receive practical instruction in trench warfare.1922S. Lewis Babbitt ix. 126 Dante..the fellow that took the Cook's Tour to Hell.1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 63 Cook's tour, a colloquial phrase for the customary tour round the trenches by officers and N.C.O.'s of relieving..units.., the ‘Cook's Tourists’ being guided by the previous holders of the position.1928C. A. Nicholson Hell & Duchess II. iii. 248 She has yet..to do her Cook's tour, as it were: the Louvre, Cluny, Sainte-Chapelle.1969A. Glyn Dragon Variation viii. 229 Sightseeing!.. It isn't a question of taking a Cook's Tour round the city.

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