fifty-cent tour
- noun
- Informal
:
tour de cincuenta centavos
- The museum offers a fifty-cent tour for tourists on a tight budget.
Examples
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The museum offers a fifty-cent tour every Saturday.
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If you're short on time, just ask for the fifty-cent tour of the factory.
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After arriving at the university, we were taken on a fifty-cent tour of the campus.
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We enjoyed a fifty-cent tour of the historic district.
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During the conference, the guide offered us a fifty-cent tour of the city, highlighting its main attractions.
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For newcomers, the museum provides a fifty-cent tour that covers the basics of its history and exhibits.
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She enjoyed the fifty-cent tour of the historic district, which introduced her to the key landmarks.
Synonyms
217
3.5
An online guided view of a place that you can explore
2
8.7
A very quick visit that shows only the main places
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3.9
A guided tour of a place to check its condition
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
fifty-cent + tour
The phrase is compositionally built: 'fifty-cent' signals a very low price and 'tour' is a guided visit, so the combined meaning of an inexpensive/basic (and often brief) guided tour is directly derivable from the parts. This price-adjective + noun pattern is common and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Fifty-cent tour likely comes from very cheap trips where the fifty-cent price bought a quick tour. That's why it now means 'a brief or basic guided tour'.