Words similar to colloquialism

Example sentences for: colloquialism

How can you use “colloquialism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The inference is that the colloquialism is Australian, which it is not.
This vulgarism is a specific usage of the well-known colloquialism denoting anything resounding or impressive.
The incorporation of walk the walk and talk the talk into white-bread English, often by people whose jus' folks colloquialism is a pose, may not bode well.
The explanation for this coincidence may lie in the Italian expression esser Fra Fazio to be Brother (or Friar) Fazio, a colloquialism for to give away money.
It would be impossible to compile a definitive glossary for this group, but a few examples follow: the heads (naval colloquialism, dating from the late nineteenth century, said to be from the location of the latrines on a ship); the longs (pet-name for latrines at Brasenose College, Oxford, from c. 1870, so-called because they were built from funds donated by a certain Lady Long); and greenhouses (Ulysses , Book VIII), James Joyce's personal slang for the public toilets after the color of their paint.