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colloquialism

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colloquialism

Informal word or phrase appropriate to familiar, everyday conversation. Colloquialisms are more acceptable than slang in a wider social context.



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Danny Deever,' 'Pharaoh and the Sergeant,' 'Fuzzy Wuzzy,' 'The Ballad of East and West,' 'The Last Chantey,' 'Mulholland's Contract,' and many others, are splendidly stirring, but their colloquialism and general realism put them on a very different level from the work of the great masters who express the deeper truths in forms of permanent beauty.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Higginbotham's grammar, Higginbotham's colloquialisms, Higginbotham's mental quirks and processes, were apparent throughout.
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