London particular

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Applied to the soup in a reversal of the idiom pea-soup fog.

Noun[edit]

London particular (countable and uncountable, plural London particulars)

  1. (UK, dated) A spell of smog over the city of London, England.
  2. (UK, dated) A thick pea-and-ham soup.
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