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She writes beautiful songs with colloquial lyrics that touch the heart.colloquial = informal, sounding like natural conversation
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Brilliant, but he was . . . what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up. (source)colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
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My choices of language (...colloquial), (source)
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(Colloquially) Little cooler than it was. (source)Colloquially = in an informal style
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Or did that line mean blow the whistle in the colloquial sense, as in "to reveal a secret or alert someone to a crime"?† (source)colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
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Hiro is armed with two swords and a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, known colloquially as a nine, with two ammunition clips, each carrying eleven rounds.† (source)
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"Can't, might set the black damp off," the old miner said, using the colloquial term for methane.† (source)colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language
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He was down in a subbasement room known colloquially as the Tank because its metal walls were dotted with electronic noisemakers to foil other electronic devices.† (source)
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We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial.† (source)
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The final part of Indoc involved boats-the fabled IBS (inflatable boat, small) or, colloquially, itty-bitty ship.† (source)
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Inside the château they spoke a terse form of colloquial Office Hebrew that was beyond the reach of mere translators.† (source)
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During my stay at Starkfield I lodged with a middle-aged widow colloquially known as Mrs. Ned Hale.† (source)
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A colloquial density that makes family life the one medium of sense knowledge in which an astonishment of heart is routinely contained.† (source)
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He spoke to Philip in correct, rather archaic English, having learned it from a study of the English classics, not from conversation; and it was odd to hear him use words colloquially which Philip had only met in the plays of Shakespeare.† (source)
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Well, it was a colloquial expression, Charlie would say.† (source)
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I go on colloquially ...I send word many times that these two Kings were sold to the North; and Mahbub Ali, who was yet farther North, amply confirmed it.† (source)
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