My father, to use a colloquial expression, was full against it, and did his utmost to prevent its execution.

They frequently use colloquial expression in their poetry.

Barricade references appear in many colloquial expressions and are used, often metaphorically, in poems and songs celebrating radical social movements.

In order to convey the setting, he used literary techniques such as specific diction, or colloquial expressions.

Students can always switch to more colloquial language when they talk.

Their rejection of lofty objectivity, use of humour and colloquial language went with the grain of the times.

He found colloquial language to turn the deficit from an abstraction into something comprehensible to the average family.

If the language of the original text was colloquial, it should be translated into the colloquial language of our own time.

In colloquial language, the word got converted into the present surname.

Is it permissible (or sensible) in colloquial speech and writing to employ this device without explanation or apology?

Colloquial speech will be ill-represented in broadcast archives, and the growing force of official norms in published attitudes will make the real opinions of people harder to retrieve.

Some auxiliary verbs and personal pronouns are often contracted, especially in colloquial speech.

Double negatives nearly always resolve to a positive meaning even in colloquial speech, while triple negatives resolve to a negative meaning.

Hardy in these poems often used the viewpoint of ordinary soldiers and their colloquial speech.

No, let's give them isigwagwagwa (a colloquial term for war).

Their design incorporated a large basement; the colloquial term was an airey.

A colloquial term for such degree would be all but dissertation.

The origin of its name, remains clouded in mystery, although it could have been a colloquial term of derision, to indicate a rural backwater.

It can also be used as a measure of energy, for truck classification, or as a colloquial term.