Pea-souper

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Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Is it a meal or a type of weather?

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:12.0	Hello. from BBC Learning English.
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Faye Faye and I'm Neil.
0:19.0	Neil, why are you still here?
0:21.0	I thought you were driving to Manchester and Rob was going to present the program.
0:25.6	Fay Faye have you looked outside the window?
0:28.2	Oh no, should I?
0:30.4	It's a P-super out there.
0:32.8	You want me to look out of the window at pea soup?
0:37.7	Is there a big bowl of it or something?
0:39.9	No, there's no soup.
0:41.4	It's an informal way of describing thick fog. It's so thick you can hardly see through it, and that's why I can't drive to Manchester.
0:49.0	That's a shame. But why a pea souper?
0:53.0	I guess because like pea soup it's thick and a dark cloudy colour.
0:57.0	Hmm, I'd rather eat pea soup than be in it.
1:01.0	I think we had better hear some examples of this strange phrase.
1:04.7	It looks like our flight is delayed until this P-Super clears.
1:14.0	It's a real P-Super today.
1:16.8	When I was driving here, I couldn't even see the car in front of me.
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