| 单词 | pea soup |
| 释义 | pea soup (once / 32031 pages) 1n 2n You can use the phrase pea soup to describe your lunch, but some people are just as likely to mean "a thick fog" when they talk about pea soup. The literal meaning of pea soup is pretty obvious — it's a thick, savory soup, usually made from green or yellow split peas. The figurative meaning is less clear, since it means "a fog so thick you can't see through it." The first written mention of pea soup was actually spelled pease soup, in 1711. Londoners have been using it since at least the mid-1800's to describe their own famous fog. WORD FAMILYpea soup: pea soups USAGE EXAMPLESA smorgasbord lunch includes traditional Swedish pea soup, Swedish meatballs and red potatoes, open-face sandwiches and traditional Swedish desserts. Washington Post(Oct 28, 2016) In doing so, these priests face down gallons of pea soup and incomprehensible darkness. The Guardian(Oct 28, 2016) A sampling of recent dishes includes split pea soup with vegetables, beef meatballs and orecchiette with tomato-pepper sauce, and mascarpone cream with raspberries. New York Times(Oct 20, 2016) 1 n a thick soup made of dried peas (usually made into a puree) 2Hyper soup liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food n a heavy thick yellow fog Syn|Hyper pea-souper fog droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground |
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