COLLOQUIALISM in a Sentence

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He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.

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 Meanings and Examples of COLLOQUIALISM
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colloquialism
 n.  colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Classic Sentence:
1  A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
2  He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
3  It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.