0 an informal word or expression that is more suitable for use in speech than in writing --
I suggest that factory farming is probably a colloquialism.
Ayto is right in saying that 'one person's slang is another's colloquialism', but it is a pity to stop there.
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'.
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.
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.
I can take part effortlessly in any conversation or discussion and have a good familiarity with idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms.
This was an odd perspective, though, for every colloquialism evoked the bird's urban heritage.
Has a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative levels of meaning.
