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Big Smoke

noun

  1. the Big Smoke informal.
    a large city, esp London
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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“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.

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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.”

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

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Arsenal v Newcastle: Eddie Howe has been cleared to travel to the Emirates with Newcastle tomorrow after a spell in quarantine but his assistant coach Jason Tindall was in charge of talking to the media this morning ahead of the squad’s trip to the Big Smoke.

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