big smoke

English

Noun

the big smoke (uncountable)

  1. (Australia) Any large city.
    • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 82:
      I got a transfer in my bank job and on the first day on the job in the big smoke I had to share a teller's box with a young lady called Kim, a real spunk and my future wife.
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