Meaning of Big Smoke | Babel Free

Definitions

1. London.
   UK, informal
2. Dublin.
   Ireland, informal
3. Toronto.
   Canada, informal
4. Any large city.
   broadly

Examples

“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.”

“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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