Big Smoke

noun

1. informal,  a large city, esp London

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From New York Times

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.”

From Seattle Times

It may sound like they have disappeared from the Big Smoke - but have they?

From BBC