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.