Big Smoke

noun

1. informal,  a large city, esp London

Example Sentences

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.

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Big Smoke Festival is part of South Facing's summer of open-air concerts in London.

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“We don’t want there to be big smoke events. But then, at the same time, we do want data to understand things.”

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“The 12-point plan on Ukraine is a big smoke screen to deflect criticism against China for its pro-Russia neutrality,” said Tuvia Gering, a researcher at the Guilford Glazer Center at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel who has written extensively about Chinese foreign policy.

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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.”

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