Linguistic element peculiar to colloquial speech.
1He thinks, speaks, and dreams "shop," as the colloquial phrase has it.
2To use a modern colloquial phrase, the cases were "framed up."
3The ball has been called the Brazuca, a colloquial phrase that references something intrinsically Brazilian in style.
4To use a common colloquial phrase, he was a man of genius, if ever there was one.
5For him the coachman and the guard, the chambermaid and the laundress, pore over their English grammars and colloquial phrase books.
6When you enter the world of good society, drop all your colloquial phrases and mannerisms behind.
7He took great pains in correcting my Spanish, and supplying me with colloquial phrases, and common terms and exclamations, in speaking.
8"Oh, that would never do," she answered, catching a colloquial phrase she had often heard long before in Queensland.
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