pea soup fog

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• pea-soup fog — «PEE SOOP», Informal. a very thick and heavy fog: »The term “pea soup” has no standing among weathermen, but then most pea soup fogs the ones in London, for instance aren t simply fogs but combinations of fog and smog (E. B. White) …   Useful english dictionary

• Pea soup — is soup made, typically, from dried peas. It is, with variations, a part of the cuisine of many cultures. It is greyish green or yellow in color depending on the regional variety of peas used; all are cultivars of Pisum sativum.Pea soup has been… …   Wikipedia

• pea-soup|er — «PEE SOO puhr», noun. Informal. a pea soup fog: »The London pea souper made her homesick for her house in Hollywood (This Week) …   Useful english dictionary

• pea soup — noun 1. a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree) (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑soup 2. a heavy thick yellow fog • Syn: ↑pea souper • Hypernyms: ↑fog * * * …   Useful english dictionary

• pea soup — or pea souper can be used to describe dense fog …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• pea soup — noun count 1. ) a soup made from PEAS 2. ) INFORMAL a FOG (=thick low cloud) in which you cannot see anything …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• pea soup — pea′ soup n. 1) a thick soup made from split peas 2) inf a dense fog …   From formal English to slang

• pea soup — 1. a heavy soup made from dried split peas or, sometimes, fresh peas 2. a dense, yellowish fog: also Chiefly Brit. peasouper n …   English World dictionary

• pea soup — soup made from peas; thick fog …   English contemporary dictionary

• pea soup — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. fog, smog, traffic hazard, pea souper*; see fog …   English dictionary for students

• pea-soup·er — /ˌpiːˈsupɚ/ noun, pl ers [count] Brit old fashioned + informal : a very heavy and thick fog The fog was very bad–a real pea souper …   Useful english dictionary