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as in vernacular
used in or suitable for speech and not formal writing
the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression—to rub me the wrong way
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as in conversational
having the style and content of everyday conversation
a colloquial essay on what makes a marriage successful
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as in colloquialism
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