Words similar to colloquial

Example sentences for: colloquial

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In The Crossing McCarthy hits his stride in dialogue in colloquial Mexican Spanish and does himself proud.
A slew of words like mavin and chutzpa , phrases like the bottom line and the whole megillah , idioms like eat one's heart out and need it like a hole in the head , formative elements like shm-(fancy/shmancy, value/shmalue) and -nik (spynik, noshnik) have become common coin in colloquial English, especially in the United States.
The manual explained that to understand your patients you must be able to understand the colloquial and idiomatic expressions they use and you must be able to speak to them in a simple way so that they'll understand you.
Taking a stroll down the avenue is such a national institution that there’s even a colloquial expression for it: gin-bura.
The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.