Sentence examples for colloquialism from inspiring English sources
The word 'colloquialism' is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it to refer to words, phrases, and sometimes idioms that are used in informal language and specific to a region or culture. Example: "The use of colloquialism in the novel gave it an air of authenticity."
noun
A colloquial word or phrase; a common spoken expression, often regional.
"Use the colloquial language to transcend colloquialism," he urged, and he declared that in haiku "one must talk poetry".
We take a very strong stand in trying to promote dollars going into mental illness, but it's a colloquialism.
The point I was making here was to use a colloquialism to say that Tony Abbott is rejecting and refusing to see the biggest challenge facing us and in so doing it's a massive opportunity cost to the country.
He's certainly got the vocab – when I ask about "Blue Peter presenter" being a byword for boring, his unexpected response is: "It's difficult to find the justification for a colloquialism that's immersed in a convenient cultural narrative".
But in using a colloquialism I certainly didn't mean any offence to anyone with a mental illness.
The sack's ocular shape hints at an Arab colloquialism that describes a loved one as the "pupil of one's eye", but its heaviness also reveals it as a burden.
Pajero is a colloquialism widely used in South America, particularly Argentina, meaning masturbator.
(That gives a nice new meaning to the expression "Gorbals kiss", which is more usually a colloquialism for a headbutt).Nor do all Muslims pay heed when religious authorities in countries like Saudi Arabia or Malaysia warn them against celebrating this infidel feast.
In 2005 Glasgow Prestwick Airport decided to adopt the slogan "Pure Dead Brilliant", a Glaswegian colloquialism.
Lord Byron's verse novel Don Juan (1819 24), sardonic and casual, combined the colloquialism of medieval light verse with a sophistication that inspired a number of imitations.
To these Akhmatova added her own stamp of elegant colloquialism and the psychological sophistication of a young cosmopolitan woman, fully in control of the subtle verbal and gestural vocabulary of modern intimacies and romance.
