| 单词 | pea-soup fog |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspea-soup fog b. = pea-souper n. 1. More fully pea-soup fog. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > thick mist or fog > very thick fog pea-soup fog1849 pea-souper1890 thick1936 c1831 B. N. Webster High Ways & By Ways ii. ii. 26 All sense is enveloped in mystery, like London in a November pea-soup-coloured fog.] 1849 H. Melville Jrnl. Visit to London & Continent (1948) 45 Upon sallying out this morning encountered the oldfashioned pea soup London fog. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 2/3 A peasoup fog in March is going a little too far in the way of meteorological jokes. 1976 J. Lee Ninth Man 10 He couldn't see more than fifteen or twenty feet through this pea soup. 1989 I. Taylor George Eliot (1990) viii. 84 Pea-soup fogs were a part of everyday life for half the year. 2002 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (Nexis) 9 Apr. Fog lights that slice through thickest pea soup like light sabers. < as lemmas |
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