1) It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.

2) They have little acquaintance with colloquial English.

3) " Movie " is a colloquial word for " moving picture " .

4) This should be extended to include short colloquial phrases.

5) Although some students have a good grasp of colloquial language,(http:///colloquial.html) few have ever got to grips with the concept of register.

6) There is nothing colloquial about the auditor calling the company his/her client.

7) It may be very colloquial and the voices are often distorted.

8) This tale was collected in the Louisiana Creole colloquial speech.

9) There is a colloquial standard to learn on the playground and a literary standard to learn in class.

10) It's a useful little phrase book, full of colloquial expressions.

11) The best way of improving your colloquial English is by listening to native speakers.

12) For an ordinary wedding a colloquial way of speaking will be suitable.

13) There is also growing differentiation between colloquial and literal vocabulary.

14) To eliminate or locate colloquial words there are dictionaries of slang.

15) His language is smooth, easy(), colloquial and mostly vernacular.

16) Ken, compadre, I admire the colloquial style.

17) The song uses colloquial language.

18) His stumbling attempts at colloquial Russian amused her.

19) Lyrics of popular, colloquial, easy to learn to sing.

20) Rugger - colloquial name for the game.

21) His English then was fluent but not colloquial.

22) Colloquial expression is an important property of spoken English.

23) Almost all idiomatic expressions are colloquial language.

24) Many colloquial expressions have acquired literary currency through magazines.

25) Our special aim is for missioners to speak colloquial Taiwanese ( Hakka ) well.

26) There are multiple colloquial terms for psilocybin mushrooms, the most common being magic mushrooms or 'shrooms.

27) You shouldn't use phrases like "sort of" in essays -- they're too colloquial.

28) The wire services demanded language stripped of the local, the regional, and the colloquial....

29) Catledge inserted the more rustic touches, a kind of hominy style that gave their writing a colloquial flavor.

30) This brilliant, caustic, rambling satire is written in a colloquial style.

1) They have little acquaintance with colloquial English.

31) Imagists---A group of mainly American poets, including Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell, who used sharp visual images and colloquial speech; active from 1912 to 1914.

32) The second chapter describes andand colloquial reading of Kaihui dialect.

33) The word "Knickerbocker", a Dutch surname, is used as a colloquial term for New Yorkers descended from the origin al Dutch settlers.

34) The folk customs in Min dialect areas breed and develop the local colloquial languages.

35) If say oneself know English, that deceives people, colloquial flooey is gotten very, total meeting blames an environment, it is interest and persistence actually, I think a society really.

36) The literal and colloquial phenomena in Min dialect have invoked the interests of the academia, and subsequent discussions on different sub-groups of the dialect.

37) Birdbrain has long been a colloquial term of ridicule. The common notion is that birds' brains are simple, or so scientists thought and taught for many years.

38) A colloquial term for a crisis of this time scale is a "decennial crisis" (meaning one that occurs after about ten years).

39) Bird - A colloquial expression used to refer to a communications satellite.

40) As a patois , or colloquial , slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor.

41) This brilliant, rambling satires is written in a colloquial style.

42) She was good at using reduplication and colloquial language to create the elegant, subtle, fresh and meaningful artistic style , which expresses her own feelings.

43) These words sound too literary to give them colloquial currency.

44) The Union colloquial and Valse means quite a lot of music taste, depicts the feudal bureaucrats ugly, with great nuance.

45) Chinese Colloquial words, those newly-born words or fully-grown ones with their meanings having changed, once prevailed among spoken languages of different social strata in history.

46) The corpus consists of mainly colloquial materials, covering as more phonetic phenomena as possible, including segmental and suprasegmental phonetic combinations.

47) The articulation index of putonghua (standard colloquial Chinese) is derived with a new method.

48) Both colloquial usage and slang are more common speech than in writing.

49) The new textbooks are composed mainly of colloquial American English.

50) There are about 900 English translations of the Bible, ranging from the grandiloquent to the colloquial.

51) First Holy Communion is the colloquial name for a person's first reception of the sacrament of the Eucharist.

52) To know more colloquial expressions is a head start in learning English.

53) In colloquial speech, the past progressive is sometimes used to show what one says is casual, unimportant and aimless, whereas the use of the simple past means differently.

54) Meanwhile, the village does not exist in California, either in colloquial speech or as a municipal corporation.