whistle-stop tour

1. 1.

   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”

   Broadertour

   Part ofcampaigning

Questions about whistle-stop tour

What does whistle-stop tour mean?

whistle-stop tour means "a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited".

Is whistle-stop tour a common word?

whistle-stop tour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.