We used to laugh over aposiopesis in Latin class because it seemed disarmingly colloquial for a sea god to talk like that.
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"I'm drawn to a full English, " he said, referring to the colloquial term for a fried breakfast.
In a fit of what can only be described as a collective bout of humour, the hurricane force winds were given the colloquial name for a Scottish scrotum.
In America a kind of colloquial vernacular, it refers to a kind of a - it's a rude expression.
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Though most of us feel dis-eased around disease, colloquial English proffers a sparse vocabulary for the expression of embarrassment, fear, anxiety, grief or sorrow.
According to trusty old Wikipedia, the term scuttlebutt corresponds to the iconic colloquial concept of a water cooler, which becomes the locus of congregation and casual discussion.
The comment may have been intended as just a colloquial way of describing the responsibility that the chief executive will have for making the new health system work.
Hart and Gershwin, after all, are credited with loosening up songwriting conventions and helping pioneer a more colloquial, natural-sounding approach to lyrics.
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When Allen came out with that poem in a direct, colloquial, funny, vernacular, frank and unembarrassed powerful way, he spoke to the people's condition, and it touched on things that were in their hearts.
Hammami regularly chats on Twitter with a group of American terrorism experts, conversations that are so colloquial and so infused with Americana that many in the counter-terror field have formed a type of digital bond with Hammami.
We received a reprieve most of the time in colloquial English, but never in written English.
Its colloquial name stems from the odor emitted from glands on its abdomen a defense mechanism triggered by disturbances like predators or homeowners who stumble upon them in attics.
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Using more colloquial language, trying to control spending with higher taxes is like trying to cure alcoholics by giving them keys to a liquor store.
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