whistle-stop tour

Definitions of whistle-stop tour
  1. noun
    a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited
    “in 1948 Truman crossed the country several times on his whistle-stop tours”
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    type of:
    circuit, tour
    a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area
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