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Meanings of colloquial phrase in английском

русский
разговорное выражение
испанский
palabra coloquial

Linguistic element peculiar to colloquial speech.

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        разговорное выражение
        Usage of colloquial phrase in английском
        1
        He thinks, speaks, and dreams "shop," as the colloquial phrase has it.
        Dreamthorp / A Book of Essays Written in the Country
        2
        To use a modern colloquial phrase, the cases were "framed up."
        Great Fortunes from Railroads
        3
        The ball has been called the Brazuca, a colloquial phrase that references something intrinsically Brazilian in style.
        BBC
        4
        To use a common colloquial phrase, he was a man of genius, if ever there was one.
        The Book-Hunter / A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
        5
        For him the coachman and the guard, the chambermaid and the laundress, pore over their English grammars and colloquial phrase books.
        Three Men on the Bummel
        6
        When you enter the world of good society, drop all your colloquial phrases and mannerisms behind.
        Book of Etiquette, Volume II
        7
        He took great pains in correcting my Spanish, and supplying me with colloquial phrases, and common terms and exclamations, in speaking.
        Two Years Before the Mast
        8
        "Oh, that would never do," she answered, catching a colloquial phrase she had often heard long before in Queensland.
        The Great Taboo
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        Translations for colloquial phrase