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whistle-stop

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

[whistle-stop] {n.}

A small town where the trains only stop on a special signal.

* /President Truman made excellent use of the whistle-stop during his 1948 campaign for the presidency./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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