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.
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.
"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
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