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- the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression—to rub me the wrong way
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- a colloquial essay on what makes a marriage successful
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colloquial
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“Colloquial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colloquial. Accessed 31 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of colloquial was in 1751
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