Tours

nickel tour

A brief, superficial guided tour, inspection, or survey. There's not much to see here anyway, so let me give you the nickel tour. No, I don't know where the bathrooms are—I only got a nickel tour of the building.
See also: nickel, tour

whistle-stop tour

A brief trip to several locations. My travel agent offered me such a great deal on a whistle-stop tour of Italy that I couldn't resist.
See also: tour
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • nickel tour
  • a whistle-stop tour
  • whistle-stop tour
  • you pay your money, and you take your choice
  • pay your money and take your choice
  • (you) pay your money and take your choice
  • opt out
  • opt out (of something)
  • go on tour
  • tour
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Guests wishing to partake in a Disneyland VIP Tour with Southern California Private Tours, are encouraged to contact the Tour Desk at 866-848-1870, or by email at tourdirector@socalprivatetours.com.
'We have watched numerous players show up at the Qualifying Tournaments, and a year or two later they are playing on the Web.com Tour and the PGA Tour.
Leader of the opposition Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq and leader of the House Senator Shibli Faraz had conducted five and nine foreign tours respectively on the government expenditure.
Romualdez said the tour would give Filipino-Americans the chance 'to
We will need to spend some time with you to gain an understanding of how your business operates, as well as what type of information you maintain on your customers and tours," concluded Dr.
However, Tourism Bureau official Liu Shih-ming said in a statement that the real reason behind the decline in package tour groups is the change in Chinese travel laws which were recently amended in 2016.
IF you're a tourist on a budget and time limit, you may want to consider a walking tour.
This new acquisition follows the recent transaction with Irish Welcome Tours, an Irish inbound tour operator, and Authentic Ireland, a high-growth online US travel agent, which strengthened Tour Partner Group's market position in the UK and Ireland.
Tickets for the tour (http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/735218?tm_link=tm_header_search) went on sale in December.
The PGA TOUR is the world's premier membership organization for touring professional golfers, co-sanctioning more than 130 tournaments on the PGA TOUR, PGA TOUR Champions, Web.com Tour, PGA TOUR Latinoamerica, Mackenzie Tour-PGA TOUR Canada and PGA TOUR China.
Five different packages were introduced for families including six-day tour to Kalam, six-day tour to Swat,four-day tour to Murree and Galiyat,eight-day tour to Hunza,and eight-day tour to Gilgit.
It marks the third golfing year-ender to be staged in Dubai after the men's and women's senior finals, and is now the fifth annual European Tour event to be held in the UAE.
Anchorage-based Salmon Berry Tours offers several winter tours, including snowmachining, helicopter trips and dog sledding experiences.
Schools cannot provide childcare during visitations; tours and events are designed for parents only.