"flying visit" meaning in English

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          "text": "My favorite novelist was on a flying visit to London last week for a book signing.",
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          "ref": "2022 November 7, “The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s Cop27 trip: placing the planet on a road to hell”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "Rishi Sunak is not interested in the climate emergency – and everyone knows it. Forced to make a flying visit to Cop27, Mr Sunak’s intransigence made him an outcast at the UN summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.",
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          "ref": "2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:",
          "text": "COVID seems to have increased traffic to such locations, as 'staycations' have become more popular. But for me, it's a flying visit. I am merely changing trains to continue along the coast to Hastings, aboard another Southern Class 377.",
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        "A very short visit."
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        "(idiomatic) A very short visit."
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          "word": "whistle-stop"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "very short visit",
          "word": "pikavierailu"
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          "sense": "very short visit",
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          "word": "Stippvisite"
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          "sense": "very short visit",
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          "word": "capatina"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "very short visit",
          "word": "mordi e fuggi"
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          "sense": "very short visit",
          "word": "breve sosta"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "very short visit",
          "word": "al volo"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "very short visit",
      "word": "pikavierailu"
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      "sense": "very short visit",
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      "sense": "very short visit",
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      "sense": "very short visit",
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      "sense": "very short visit",
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