colloquialism

How To Use colloquialism In A Sentence

• Although they have studied English for four years, one of the biggest problems they face when they come here is just getting used to our accents and our colloquialisms.
• Leila helps translate this for me as she, but not he, understands the colloquialism.
• The inspiration of the 'Singapore Aunties' project comes from our eccentric and eclectic south-eastern colloquialism.
• He should, he knew, speak with some sense of colloquialism if he was to get on with this stonebreaker, a person for whom he had a certain removed sympathy. Waysiders
• While it may be acceptable in email or in chat rooms, excessive colloquialism can diminish the quality of a formal written text.
• There is already among the British soldiers an immense vocabulary of slang or colloquialisms, driblets of which reach us now and then.
• Good conversation features colloquialisms, colour and the natural rhythm of speech.
• I have just learned that titch or tich is a UK colloquialism meaning 'a very small person or amount,' with an associated adjective titchy. Languagehat.com: TITCHY.
• She has continued to work at her English finding now that idioms and colloquialisms are the main problem.
• After drugs, the most frequent references and most expressive colloquialisms in The Hippie Dictionary deal with sexual intercourse and sexual organs.