Eksempler på colloquialism

• As an informal register, comic strips characteristically draw on colloquialisms, phonetic spellings, etc., to convey oral concepts in print.

• The phrase, in its origins, was a colloquialism: its meanings were idiomatic to the neighbourhood's inhabitants.

• The tone fluctuates somewhat: mainly sober academic, with occasional lapses into colloquialism and journalese.

• Bearing up conversely has a note of hope and is another of many colloquialisms which describe a ship's heading relative to the wind.

• The style of the narrator is clear, enlivened by occasional colloquialisms and modern parallels.

• The view of spoken languages as composed of just colloquialism and therefore having no grammar is totally mistaken.

• This is a classic practitioners' term, and we need to pay attention to the colloquialism here.

• Has a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative levels of meaning.

• This was an odd perspective, though, for every colloquialism evoked the bird's urban heritage.

• I can take part effortlessly in any conversation or discussion and have a good familiarity with idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms.

• Note that these colloquialisms are stripped not only of the expletive but also of the copula, and that the same phrase containing the copula but no expletive is ungrammatical.

• In free radio programming, a bottom-up strategy is embraced through the adoption of subversive speech (rudeness, slang, colloquialism) that speaks to multiple realities rather than promoting a unified, officializable space.

• The new book offers this take: 'a term recorded here might be slang, slangy jargon, a colloquialism, an acronym, an initialism, a vulgarism, or a catchphrase'.

• Ayto is right in saying that 'one person's slang is another's colloquialism', but it is a pity to stop there.

• I suggest that factory farming is probably a colloquialism.