port of call

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[port of call] {n. phr.}

1. Any of the ports that a ship visits after the start of a voyage and before the end; a port where passengers or cargo may be taken on or put off; an in-between port.

* /Savannah is a port of call for many Atlantic coasting vessels./

2. A place you visit regularly or often; a stop included on your usual way of going.

* /It was an obscure little restaurant which I had made something of a port of call./

* /His home had become one of my regular ports of call in Boston./

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	call ⁴³ {n. phr.} ⁵³⁰

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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