" These elements had, however, to use a colloquialism, an "exceedingly rough time.

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.

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

Other men aim at ease and vigour by discarding Latinisms, and admitting colloquialisms; but vigour and ease are not to be had on recipe.

I deemed that I gave myself away dirt-cheap,excuse again the colloquialism; the transaction seems to require such a phrase,for there is no doubt that Mr. Mellasys was greatly objectionable.

This is, of course, intentionally cast in a homely style in contrast to the courtliness of the main plot; but Greene, as some of his later works attest, knew the value of strong racy English no less than his friend Nashe, who, in the preface he prefixed to this very work, pushed colloquialism and idiom to the verge of affectation and beyond.

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