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The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.
Worse, he's very big on language humor, on purposely mismatching tone and topic and veering abruptly between high-flown rhetoric and scatological bluntness.
The German critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger has written of how Grass ranges with masterly skill from high-flown parodies of Catholic litany to the impersonal tone of case histories to slang to dialect and so on.
The more high-flown critics are flush with Schadenfreude at what they see as director George Lucas' fall from glory.
Colloquial means nothing more than `used in colloquy, or conversation' and is thus no more than a high-flown term for conversational , which, as far as I know, carries no stigma.