2017年1月31日 星期二

Pea soup, or a pea souper, make an impression on sb


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Pea soup, or a pea souper, also known as a black fog, killer fog or smog is a very thick and often yellowish, greenish, or blackish fog caused by air pollution that contains soot particulates and the poisonous gas sulfur dioxide.

Pea soup fog - Wikipedia


make an impression on sb
to cause someone to notice and admire you:
He made quite an impression on the girls at the tennis club.

Harvard University Press
"In Victorian times it was our love for home fires that politicians were reluctant to upset; today it is our love for cars and other private means of transport. It took many decades to act on the knowledge that pea-soupers cost lives. How many decades will it take in our own time?"


Writers and artists were inspired by the pea-soupers but smog cost thousands of lives
WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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