big smoke
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Big Smoke¹
proper noun the Big Smoke
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London.
The first man I spoke to was Whitechapel to the backbone, plainly to be spotted as such as if it had been tattooed on his forehead. Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.
Similar: the Smoke
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Dublin.
Similar: the Big Shmoke
- Toronto.
- Any large city.
big smoke²
noun the big smoke
- Any large city. I got a transfer in my bank job and on the first day on the job in the big smoke I had to share a teller's box with a young lady called Kim, a real spunk and my future wife.
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title = {big smoke},
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