My English was so bad, so thin,stupid colloquialisms out of joint with French idiom.

My English was so bad, so thin,stupid colloquialisms out of joint with French idiom.

The real case we British have against our lawyers, if I may adopt an expressive colloquialism, is not that they are lawyers, but that they are such infernal lawyers.

"By thinking, for example, you could elevate your sheet by eliminating certain misapplied colloquialisms.

For one thing, we on this side now borrow, and borrow very freely, the more picturesque colloquialisms of America.

This conception of "humours," based on a physiology which was already obsolescent, takes heavily from the realism of Jonson's methods, nor does his use of a careful vocabulary of contemporary colloquialism and slang save him from a certain dryness and tediousness to modern readers.

A vulgar colloquialism for laying a girl on the grass.

It was born on the stage, about ten years ago, at one of the minor theatres at Paris, though probably borrowed from a wine-shop, and most likely will have as brief an existence as our own late "flare-up," and such ephemeral colloquialisms, or rather vulgarisms, that tickle the public fancy for a day, till pushed from their stool by another.