Sentence examples for a colloquialism from inspiring English sources

Pavement is a colloquialism.

It's a colloquialism".

¹ This is not a colloquialism, it's jargon.

He has not yet heard a colloquialism for ankle fat.

Pajero is a colloquialism widely used in South America, particularly Argentina, meaning masturbator.

"There is a colloquialism known as suicide by cop," he said.

Besides the emporium famed for the "Macy's Day Parade"–a Gotham colloquialism known to the rest of the U.S. as The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Federated also owns New York City landmark Bloomingdale's, Boston export Filene's and Midwestern staple Marshall Field's.

While ours is a living language, in flux and rich with regional variations, some of which have connotations of race and class, were your students to use "nucular" in a job interview a decade hence, this would be regarded not as a charming colloquialism but a mark of ignorance.

Other interesting additions include fuhgeddaboudit, a US colloquialism reflecting an attempted New York or New Jersey pronunciation of the phrase "forget about it".

It is four years since the earth shook so hard that the city's terrified people created a new colloquialism for an earthquake – "goudou goudou", the sound of the rumbling they heard beneath their feet.

Thus Nike has initiated a new programme called Mata no Peito – a Portuguese colloquialism for "taking on a challenge" by helping protect Brazilian forest ecosystems.