pea-souper
- n a heavy thick yellow fog
- Last week, as the first real pea-souper of this year's smog season rolled over London, 6,000 doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of .
- The electric train's ten coaches were pack-jammed, with more than 1,000 passengers caught up in the confusion of the heaviest pea-souper in two years.
- They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip in the thickest pea-souper.