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Colloquialism  n.  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Colloquialism" Quotes from Famous Books



... he would be very glad to get out into the open air and collect his thoughts. He did not believe that his old fellow-countrywoman would, to use a vulgar English colloquialism, "give him away." But still, he would not feel quite at ease till she was safely deported and out ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... exclaimed Davidge, dropping into a favourite colloquialism of his native county. "Dear me, today! A man that you knew, Mr. Burchill, and that for the present you'll call Mr. X. You knew him ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... cried, using a colloquialism of the period, "if I do not name them the Rude Islands." And from that moment they have been ...
— Terribly Intimate Portraits • Noel Coward

... affords it. It will be seen that here the latitude is ample and unique; this is, in truth, the decisive hour, the turning-point in Cromwell's life. It is the moment when his chimera escapes from him, when the present kills the future, when, to use an expressive colloquialism, his destiny misses fire. All of Cromwell is at stake in the comedy being played between England ...
— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... rather uninteresting events of the next two or three days. Nothing of consequence happened, unless you are willing to consider important two perfectly blissful nights of sleep on my part. Also, I had the pleasure of taking the Countess "out walking" in my courtyard, to use a colloquialism: once in the warm, sweet sunshine, again 'neath the glow of a radiant moon. She had not been outside the castle walls, literally, in more than five weeks, and the colour leaped back into her cheeks with a rush that delighted me. I may mention in passing that I paid particular ...
— A Fool and His Money • George Barr McCutcheon

... remember before he awakes to his agony. Or nearer to the line, the whistle of an approaching shrapnel speaks of coming danger, and then a prone figure on the ground tells of one more who has been 'pipped,' to use a colloquialism of the Front. When we consider the extreme range of a seventeen-inch gun as being not far short of thirty miles, the difficulty of being out of range is at once apparent. Nearer at hand, within a few yards, an accurately thrown bomb is a fruitful source of injury to our fighting ...
— With The Immortal Seventh Division • E. J. Kennedy and the Lord Bishop of Winchester

... Adam's Ale. A very ancient colloquialism for water. In Scotland 'Adam's wine' and frequently merely 'Adam'. Prynne in his Sovereign Power of Parliament (1648), speaks of prisoners 'allowed only a poor pittance of Adam's ale.' cf. Peter Pindar (John Wolcot), The Lousiad, Canto ii, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... the procession you may see the company commander and three subalterns. They give no orders, and exact no attention. To employ a colloquialism, this ...
— The First Hundred Thousand • Ian Hay



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