And as for that much trumpeted "northern powerhouse" – don't get me started – ask the man or woman on the Bury tram what he or she thinks about it and the answer will be a colloquial term for testicles.
A decent colloquial question-answer service on the Internet has been a long time coming.
This is, of course, a colloquial and rhetorical question, in response to a question where the answer is an obvious yes.
See, for example, Barbieri (2005) for the use of like as a colloquial quotative marker.
(The word is a colloquial term for a tree with the roots still attached).
Laobaixing, or "old hundred names," is a colloquial term for the masses.
"Gnoccho" translates literally as "lump" (nice, huh?) and is a colloquial word for dumpling; gnocchi can be made out of semolina, cornmeal, spinach, even bread crumbs.
It derives from the Dutch word flaauwte, meaning failure or weakness and was once a colloquial term for the angelica plant – a delicate head on a sturdy stem.
"The entire country of Ecuador is backing La Liga as a national cause," said Biscayart, an Argentine, using a colloquial term for L.D.U.
