
829. 88 English expressions that will confuse everyone (Part 3)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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Pea Supers and London Fog
Neil Gaiman is a British writer of fantasy fiction stories. He wrote a book in 1996 called Never Where, which is a really good book. There's London and there's London Below, which is another city beneath London. So sections of London Below are still affected by pea supers - remnants of the thick fog in London's past that got trapped in London Below and remained. And then the crown, if you've seen the crown on Netflix about the royal family, the expression pea super turned up in series one. In episode number four, the events of the 1952 fog deaths and their political ramifications take up the whole of the episode. That's probably the most well known example. Let
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