like Blackpool Illuminations

prepositional phrase

Very brightly lit.

“Turn all those lights off. It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. UKinformalsimileVery brightly lit.

    Turn all those lights off. It's like Blackpool Illuminations in here!

Origin

In reference to Blackpool Illuminations, an annual festival of light founded in 1879.

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like Blackpool Illuminations. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/like%20Blackpool%20Illuminations

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“like Blackpool Illuminations.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/like%20Blackpool%20Illuminations. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “like Blackpool Illuminations,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/like%20Blackpool%20Illuminations.

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