colloquial expression
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colloquial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.kwi.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/
(of words and expressions) informal and more suitable for use in speech than ...
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expression
noun
uk/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/us/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition ofcolloquialandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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So, except as acolloquialexpressionof preference about usage, "ungrammaticality" is an impossible concept.
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It is rather interesting if one analyses thatcolloquialexpression.
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A few local authorities (to use acolloquialexpression) have gone right over the top.
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Our ships at the present time, to use acolloquialexpression, have been "collared" by the foreigner.
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Is that anything, to use acolloquialexpression, "very fat"?
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It seems to me to be acolloquialexpression.
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Nevertheless, the limit is the sky, to use acolloquialexpression.
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To use acolloquialexpression, the excuse put forward for cutting down construction is very thin indeed.
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I was using the words "vulnerable area" as acolloquialexpression.
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That means—this has become acolloquialexpression—that six months will mean six weeks in prison.
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To use acolloquialexpression, what has got their goat is this.
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They have been led, to use acolloquialexpression, up the garden path so long since the last war.
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I believe that thecolloquialexpressionfor such a person would be "the partner".
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To use acolloquialexpression, they are like water on a duck's back.
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That is a kind ofcolloquialexpression.
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If a person feels that he has been "done" —to use acolloquialexpression—because he has been sold an unroadworthy vehicle, he will go to the trading standards office.
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They frequently usecolloquialexpressionin their poetry.
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The linguist can often identify place names, genealogies, and even colloquial expressions that provide critical evidence of land rights and ownership deriving from traditional practices.
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Ferrie insisted, however, that these words were just an off-hand orcolloquialexpression.
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But both groups knew more swearwords than nonobscene colloquial expressions.
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