Cook's tour

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

Cook's tour (plural Cook's tours)

  1. (informal) A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.
    The detour meant that we had to go on a twenty-mile Cook's tour to get home.
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