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Cook's tour
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English
Etymology
From Thomas Cook, considered to be the world's first travel agent, running guided tours of Europe and the Middle East in the mid-1800s.
Noun
en informal A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.
en The detour meant that we had to go on a twenty-mile Cook's tour to get home.
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