Big Smoke
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Initially torn between moving to Australia or London, a work experience stint in the big smoke made Chanel's mind up.
From BBC
The claw-ver commuter - later named Craig - was found on Wednesday evening on a South Western Railway service from London to Portsmouth, with fellow passengers joking it had come down for a night out from the Big Smoke.
From BBC
Big Smoke Festival is part of South Facing's summer of open-air concerts in London.
From BBC
“We don’t want there to be big smoke events. But then, at the same time, we do want data to understand things.”
From Los Angeles Times
Matejka, whose 2013 collection “The Big Smoke” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, added that he was “committed to re-imagining Poetry not only as a venue for poetics, but more importantly, as one that is in service of poets and treats writers as the gifts that they are.”
From Seattle Times
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