Colloquial terms used by the children were translated in the classroom as soon as the exercise was completed.
For the dissent that she read from the bench, she rewrote her opinion in colloquial terms.
No one seems uncomfortable the next day, however, when Senta suggests, in highly colloquial terms, that Jason be castrated.
In the world beyond psychiatric jargon, narcissists are usually known by the more colloquial terms of "bully" or "abuser".
Merton also coined colloquial terms such as "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role models," and he wrote at length on the concept of serendipity.
He distinguishes marital sex, which he defines in stultifying Latinate words like intercourse and vagina, from single man sex, which he characterizes in colloquial terms.
"This is definitely a hadrosaur," Marisa said as she brushed off the outlines of a skull, "or to put it in more colloquial terms, a duck-billed dinosaur".
So for three days Brown was, in NHS parlance, a "delayed transfer of care" or, in colloquial terms, a bed-blocker.
To put it in colloquial terms, the aim of states is to be the biggest and baddest dude on the block.
The online publication, which looks more like a marketing venture than a magazine in colloquial terms, may be an act by the couture house to resurrect nostalgia for the historically impeccable brand.
A week later, Johansen noted in his diary that "Nansen and I are now on colloquial terms".Odd Erling Eriksen Alesund, Norway* SIR – I can't agree that America "remains a bastion of formal politeness".
